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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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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
David M. Raup
Born:
April 24, 1933
Died:
July 9, 2015
(aged 82)
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