<div dir="ltr"><div>Indeed and well said Dave Taht. I particularly like this quote on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions that may apply here too: <br></div><div><br></div><div>
“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments
than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of
motions and interactions of primary neutral corpuscles”
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―
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Thomas S. Kuhn,
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1748176" target="_blank">The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</a><br></span></div><div><span id="m_-642668732270493550gmail-quote_book_link_61539"> <br></span></div><div><span id="m_-642668732270493550gmail-quote_book_link_61539">And lest we forget the humanness of our endeavor: <br><br></span>
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“Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific
Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not
triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but
rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows
up that is familiar with it.”
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―
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Thomas S. Kuhn,
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<a class="gmail-authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1748176">The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</a>
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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 3:28 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Sometimes I liken this debate about the internet, to 1906-era<br>
partisans arguing about the right cures for syphilis. One side,<br>
intoning with great authority: "Tinctures of mercury, yes a good dose<br>
of mercury, is just what you need... " and the other side, insisting<br>
that "Leeches, leeches will help... all you need is a good<br>
blood-letting... and everything will be fine..."<br>
<br>
While those few that had embraced germ theory and were pointing at<br>
little squiggly things in microscopes as the root causes of so much<br>
disease, were laughed at and ignored.<br>
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