Lessons from History
History is rich, and includes everything except
today and our tomorrows. Hopefully we learn as we go . . .
George Santayana, a Spanish American philosopher and writer, famously
said: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is
set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among
savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it."
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2011
Ridiculed Discoverers, Vindicated Mavericks
Compiled by William Beaty, 2002
Weird science versus revolutionary science
"While it's true that at least 99% of revolutionary
announcements from the fringes of science are just
as bogus as they seem, we cannot dismiss every one
of them without investigation. If we do, then we'll
certainly take our place among the ranks of scoffers
who dismissed (or even accidentally helped
suppress) a large number of major scientific
discoveries throughout history.
Beware, for many
discoveries such as powered flight and drifting
continents today only appear sane and acceptable
because we have such powerful hindsight. These
same advancements were seen as obviously a bunch
of disgusting lunatic garbage during the years they
were first discovered. . ."
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