Prudence calls for 'technologies of humility' to take better account of uncertainties and unknowns i…

Sheila Jasanoff — Science and Public Reason

Prudence calls for 'technologies of humility' to take better account of uncertainties and unknowns in forecasting the future. Traditional methods of risk analysis—committed as they are to assessing the future on the basis of present knowledge—should be supplemented by analyses that are more attentive to history, to past failures of understanding, and to persistent inequality and injustice.

— Sheila Jasanoff, Science and Public Reason