Knowing enough to think you’re doing it right, but not enough to know you’re doing it wrong
I like this idea by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He calls it a challenge for life, but to me, it illustrates the humble attitude scientists must take, whilst reminding them that they should push their potential solution in order to help others make progress in their field.
Watch this, its an idea worth thinking about, then thinking about again and again on each assumption.
He is referring to the Dunning–Kruger effect. A cognitive bias that helps and hinders scientific thinking.
Like. From Quora: To spell it out: there will come a point in time when you’ll have learned enough of a subject that you feel confident about your abilities. Then, hopefully sooner than later, you’ll encounter either someone or something that is going to show you in no uncertain terms the amount of things you still have to learn.