What We’ll (Probably) Never Understand: ‘Known Unknowns’ And ‘Unknown Unknowns’ In Science

Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand or even conceive of, say, quantrum mechanics or arts administration, there are surely countless ideas and phenomena in the universe that are beyond the abilities of the human brain. “But the limits in knowledge and understanding that we do recognise are, if anything, cause for celebration. … We may never be able to know everything, but discovering what we cannot know usually leads to us knowing more.”