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Because no great scientists ever discovered anything for the purpose of getting paid. No leap in progress or historical achievement was ever driven by personal
by eecc 7y ago
Because no great scientists ever discovered anything for the purpose of getting paid.
No leap in progress or historical achievement was ever driven by personal profit. Ever. Let that sink in.
- Waterluvian 7y agoWeren't Edison and Tesla in it for the money? Betting thousands more too.
- DonHopkins 7y agoThe electrocuting dogs and cats stuff seemed pretty personal to me.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoWas Edison a great scientist? Not sure if Tesla was wholly in it for the money, if so he sure made some missteps in getting paid.
- Waterluvian 7y agoI don't want to get into a discussion on the semantics of scientist vs. engineer vs. inventor or what defines greatness. My point is that parent comment spoke very conclusively that leaps of progress are NEVER because of monetary gain and that's trivially refutable.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agofair enough.