In an age of instant opinions and algorithmic certainty, intellectual honesty begins by admitting what we do not know. AI generated image William Beebe (1877–1962), an American naturalist and explorer, while emphasizing intellectual honesty and scientific temper wrote: “These words should be ready for instant use … — ‘I don’t know.’” Going beyond Anglo-references and coming back to our homegrown geniuses, so did Bengal-based chemist, entrepreneur, and literary genius Rajshekh