So long as predictions remain popular, and are so numerous as they are today – and so long as they receive notoriety through repetition in the press and on the radio – contrary opinions will increase in importance as thinking aids. “
April 22, 2013
A two-hour college lecture can seem extraordinarily long when you’re in your early 50s, even with a ten-minute break! But there I was sitting in Massachusetts Hall in Harvard Yard –surrounded by over a hundred “kids”- listening to Professor David Dressler talk about the life cycle of scientific breakthroughs. And I had brought this tedium on...