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Why? Huge amounts of knowledge areost whenever someone dies. This is always going to hold back human progress.
by sukilot 12y ago
Why? Huge amounts of knowledge areost whenever someone dies. This is always going to hold back human progress.
- sixwings 12y agoYeah but nowadays, the internet remembers everything. This is why scientists should blog often.
- Retra 12y agoIn some ways, that is true. But I'd argue the main reason things like nationalism, racism, and other bigotry dies away is because those who support those ideas can't pass them on before they die. So it's not all bad.
- schuke 12y agoTo quote Max Planck: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.