Chris, I fully support the eviction of superstition from the human mind.
BUT... Non believers and naysayers of radical ideas are typically,
historically, and statistically, often wrong!
People said the Wright brothers couldn't fly. But they did.
People said you would die if you went faster than a few tens of MPH.
They were wrong.
People disbelieved DaVinci's inventions. But modern science proved many
to be possible.
People said it wasn't possible to fly to the Moon. Be we did.
People slammed Tesla, and persecuted him and his free wireless
electricity. Yet today we know induction charging and energy
transmission over distance is real.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -
Thomas Edison
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're
right." - Henry Ford
"Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers." - General Colin Powell
"...The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not
expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is
like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the
foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and
labors and hopes...." Nikola Tesla
Thomas Jefferson, with such a great mind on politics and human
advancement still had problems and could be considered a naysayer when
he said.
"I would more easily believe that a Yankee professor would lie than that
stones would fall from heaven." - Thomas Jefferson
Closedmindedness is the enemy of progress.
Regards,
Eric
On 10/14/2010 12:04 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
No, I'm sure he believed it. People read horoscopes all the time, as
well. That doesn't mean they work. People fool themselves into
believing all sorts of crazy stuff. The fact that our brain finds
patterns where none exist is the source of superstition!
Chris
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Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:48 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Try divining rods over a large iron
Years ago, an employee of the local utility company told me his
foreman always kept a pair of dowsing rods in his tool truck. He said
he didn't know how or why they worked, and didn't care, they were
just practical to use. At the time I thought he was b'sing me.
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Phil Whitmer
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