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> Finding nothing can often be just as important as finding something unexpected. From a scientific point you are right. From a political point or the point of
by wolfgke 10y ago
> Finding nothing can often be just as important as finding something unexpected.
From a scientific point you are right. From a political point or the point of securing further funding this statement is (unluckily) wrong.
- kuschku 10y agoNot really, the European funding isn’t that relying on new findings.
- TheGRS 10y agoI think its a fundamental problem with teaching science history. We tend to look at achievements in history as being inevitable, like of course we discovered flight after the locomotive was invented, that's just how it happened! But those discoveries were all a circumstances of chance. If we're going to continue to make progress in science we need to accept that new, groundbreaking discoveries don't happen inevitably, they happen from people doing a lot of the dirty work and from imaginative people putting the puzzle pieces together in new ways. There's no inevitability to discovery.