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DirkGently
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DirkGently's Journal
August 3, 2014
It's one thing to insist on objective testing to explore / prove a new idea.
It's entirely another to savage new ideas as being irrational idiocy until a braver person investigates something dubious for you and actually delivers new knowledge.
New ideas should not be regarded as irrational bullshit to be shouted down and derided by cowardly skeptics who pretend they know everything and then simply change their tune after better minds have proven them wrong.
Sometimes you need a leap. Rigid skeptics hate that.
It's one thing to insist on objective testing to explore / prove a new idea.
It's entirely another to savage new ideas as being irrational idiocy until a braver person investigates something dubious for you and actually delivers new knowledge.
New ideas should not be regarded as irrational bullshit to be shouted down and derided by cowardly skeptics who pretend they know everything and then simply change their tune after better minds have proven them wrong.
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