For the first time we do know — InternetStranger
A 100 years in the past mobile phones were nonsense. A 100 years in the future mobile phones will be, again, nonsense. — TheMadFool
I reject the notion of the special nature of the modern conception of a science broken loose of a value or of a living world view, as a continuing research across generations. The same is true of anything, any collective activity. — InternetStranger
For instance, the negative view of bacteria, only recently coming to light, which means that antibiotics have caused more deaths than the top five diseases in the last century through in-hospital overuse — InternetStranger
The caliber of the output depends wholly on the judgment of the one surveying it, the whole output of the now powerful conception of science might be viewed as a trivial production of junk. — InternetStranger
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