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All ideas die. The best way to respond to ignorant ideas is to ignore them, and give new life to the better ideas. There is a subtle but important difference be
by javajosh 6y ago
All ideas die. The best way to respond to ignorant ideas is to ignore them, and give new life to the better ideas. There is a subtle but important difference between attacking ignorance and calmly speaking truth in its presence.
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- 29athrowaway 6y agoThat is what many scholars and scientists have done throughout history. Unfortunately, the church has spent most of its 2000 years of existence censoring, harassing and even murdering scholars and scientists. Hypatia of Alexandria, Galileo Galilei and countless others. Some of them were probably murdered before becoming famous and have been erased from history. And many smart people were deterred to try anything scientific because the church made it too risky. If it wasn't for the church, today you would be probably living in a Mars colony.
- dang 6y agoReligious flamewar is not welcome on HN. Please don't post like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nendroid 6y agoThis is not true. Ideas may die, but they may become immortal and spread like a virus. This is completely irrespective of how true or false in actuality an idea is...