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The Dead Ends and Unappreciated Breakthroughs of Science
"We don't know everything. We have to be humble in our ability to figure things out," he says. "People should be a little bit more forgiving of dead ends and unappreciated breakthroughs." Jim Peebles' book, Cosmology Century has got him thinking about how science moves forward. It's certainly nothing like the A, therefore B, hence C, timeline that many assume given the way advances tend to be popularly reported.