Re:Does irrationality fuel innovation?
by hyperpallium on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:47PM
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"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws (The first of his three laws, the third of which is the magic-tech one)
Are you implying time travel is certainly possible?
"Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible." - Stephen Hawking
Trying fuels failure, but not trying guarantees it.
Fools often rush in and are successful because they didn't know they shouldn’t have been able to do something. But more often than not, I think they’re met with disaster simply because the skillset they lack is the same one they need to be successful.
Conversely, sometimes competent people are restrained by existing opinion structures.