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Rick Rosner: There’s a theme that some people like to emphasize that some great scientists including Einstein and Feynman said I’m just an everyday person who just thinks really hard, Crick or Watson also does that; brags about having a low IQ and stuff. That’s fine up to a point but you got to very carefully define everyday thinking to encompass logic and the accumulation of data experimental evidence. So, I’m mostly not buying that because science as we know, it largely… Galileo was one of the first modern experimental scientists. He didn’t do that many experiments; he dropped some balls, he rolled balls down, inclined planes. And Galileo was in the 1400s which is pretty recent compared to the 100,000 years that humans have been around. And if everyday thought was so scientific then why did science only originate in the last one percent of human history?
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Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Founder, In-Sight Publishing
In-Sight Publishing
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