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The Nemesis Affair (1986)
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A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory is innocent until proven guilty...Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
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Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
David M. Raup
Born:
April 24, 1933
Died:
July 9, 2015
(aged 82)
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