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I was told by a doctor that in his 1980s biology class, the professor opened by saying, "half of what I'm going to teach you is wrong - we just don't know which
by ColanR 6y ago
I was told by a doctor that in his 1980s biology class, the professor opened by saying, "half of what I'm going to teach you is wrong - we just don't know which half".
I imagine it's similar with Leonardo, and likely with our own state-of-the-art knowledge. We are all broken clocks, and the trick is to figure out which part of our knowledge is wrong.
- anticsapp 6y agoThey say that about advertising spend too. I think it was David Ogilvy but I'm too lazy to look it up.
- onemoresoop 6y agoThat is wishful thinking on their part IMO. Saying that half of X is wrong makes X look like half true. It could be false in a much higher proportion
- m463 6y ago"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half" - John Wanamaker