"But what ... is it good for?" -Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3M "Post-It" notepads.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." -1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". -Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
The Problem with the so called "contest" between Science and astrology is misguided. What the pseudo-scientists are calling for, is for astrologers to prove to their satisfaction that what they themselves have ill-conceived as astrology, be proven to them by using their paradigm. Like asking an artist to fix a mechanical problem in an automobile with his pencils and brushes, or going to a football game and expecting your team to make a home run.
"It's been said that the truth goes through three stages. First it's ridiculed. Then it's violently opposed. Then it's accepted as self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer
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