Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When a scientist becomes an expert in his field, he has his entire > life invested in the paradigm. It becomes a thing of faith mistaken > for knowledge. It would take an epiphany tantamount to a blind man > suddenly gaining sight to change. It's a great individual that can > admit his entire life's work was flawed. It rarely happens. >
Well said. Gene Mallove quoted Tolstoy in "Fire from Ice": "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions they reached perhaps with great difficulty, conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." - Jed
