When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
Some things are impossible.
It is certain because it is impossible.
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.