TED Talks

Kevin B. Jones: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine

TV-PG
2016 • E235    Dec 12, 2016    15m
Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision -- and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B. Jones faces the deep unknowns about surgery and medical care with a simple answer: honesty. In a thoughtful talk about the nature of knowledge, Jones shows how science is at its best when scientists humbly admit what they do not yet understand.

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