On 3 February 2014 23:08, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: Sometimes a problem hangs around a long time because people have a > prejudice that the answer must take a certain form. People thought about > gravity in terms of "What is it about things that makes some of them want > to go down and others go up?" They thought of heat as being a fluid and > tried to study it's properties. Later, when a good theory has been > developed, they often overlook the fact that the new theory *did not* > answer the old questions. It was *not* the explanation the had sought. > But it was better and it created new questions. >
Wise words. I just hope we both live long enough to see it fulfilled in this case. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
