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The opposite is just true as well. For instance Halley supported the Hollow Earth Theory [1]. And Einstein wrote a foreword to a book detailing how the Earth cr

The opposite is just true as well. For instance Halley supported the Hollow Earth Theory [1]. And Einstein wrote a foreword to a book detailing how the Earth crust would slide in one dramatic cataclysm [2]. [1] https://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth/ https://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-ear... [2] https://wireofinformation.wordpress.com/tag/einstein-foreword-to-earths-shifting-crust/ https://wireofinformation.wordpress.com/tag/einstein-forewor... Edit: the opposite being, "Being wrong about one thing doesn't make you wrong about everything"

philipov 7y ago
To some extent, you have to be a crank to have the confidence and persistence in opposing the vast majority of established thought long enough to discover something new. "The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success." Of course, that doesn't mean that the rest of us are obligated to listen to any of it until that success has been realized.