"If science can't be questioned, it's not science."
-- Aaron Rogers (Quarterback)
I paused over the quote that he made in the last day or two. He made the statement in relation to Covid and the vaccination business.
When you go back to Roger Bacon, de Vinci, Gesner, Galileo, Isaac Newton, James Hutton, Alexander von Humboldt, Richard Owen, Pasteur, Huxley, and Einstein.....they were all questioned extensively and often ridiculed.
In their minds....science was never truly 'finished'. Discoveries simply led onto more questions, and acceptance was hard to imagine.
We live in an odd time where 'science is settled', and the deeper into this process we venture.....the reality is that we don't need anymore scientists....if things are settled. We might as well block off the college departments and tell people to venture into some other field of study.
The funny thing here, is that we needed an NFL quarterback to bring us back to reality.
Oh, and just a reminder.....there's more than a thousand scientists walking around today, who aren't completely convinced that Einstein was 'right'. Yet no one seems to want to stop their thought process.
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