Jack Stafford - We Don't Know What We Don't Know Lyrics

After so many years
Of searching science
Countless experiments
And breaking down of elements

Of contradictory theories
And fantastic formulas
Endless equations
To get to the truth

The only thing
That we can confidently say
Throughout the ages.... is that

We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is

And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities

So much of nature
Is still conjecture
And every new answer
Asks a hundred other questions

Once everything's disproved
The one thing that's left
The unchanging reality... is that

We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is

And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities

How did this something
Come from nothing
What forced its becoming
Well different types of nothing

Science is moving
Perpetually improving
Examining and removing
Until we have one unifying thing... and it's that

We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is

And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities