XAT 2024 Question Paper | Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning

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Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

How do we choose one discovery over any other? The physician Lewis Thomas made a choice. He bluntly asserts: “The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.”

The science writer Timothy Ferris agrees: “Our ignorance, of course, has always been with us, and always will be. What is new is our awareness of it, our awakening to its fathomless dimensions, and it is this, more than anything else, that marks the coming of age of our species.”

It is an odd, unsettling thought that the culmination of our greatest century of discovery should be the confirmation of our ignorance. How did such a thing come about?

Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the above passage?

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Explanatory Answer

The passage stresses that identifying our ignorance, or what we don’t know, is important. This awareness of what we don’t know is what drives us to gain knowledge, which aligns with option E. The other options, while they might seem related, do not capture the essence of the passage as accurately as option E.

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The answer is 'That they do not know enough make humans seek to know more.'

Choice E is the correct answer.

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