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Quoting several others here: “We have blue LEDs because one guy bet many years of his life on his ideas, against significant opposition.” This is great for us
by gcanyon 3y ago
Quoting several others here: “We have blue LEDs because one guy bet many years of his life on his ideas, against significant opposition.”
This is great for us, but it’s important recognize the real cost of this success: probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of others also worked hard, and bet years of their lives, and… failed. In the words of Willy Wonka, they lost - they got nothing.
- fuzzfactor 3y agoStatistically speaking, more of those having this natural level of talent for experimentation & discovery will not be those having a PhD. >maybe thousands, of others also worked hard, and bet years of their lives, and… failed. For most of them it was not the lab where they were so hard at work. Some of them bound to be conducting their financial survival activities working in places like fast-food companies, and worse in positions where they aren't allowed to even fix things like broken milkshake machines. Far outnumbering the highly significant percentage of PhD's who are not gifted experimentalists but they are the ones hogging their share of equipment and facilities. So a huge amount of expensive facilities don't do any good, and the vast majority of those ultimately capable of getting something out of it end up getting nothing done. Of the sort.