No, No Nobel: How to Lose the Prize: Brian Keating on Scientific American's Science Talk (#328)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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The Purity of Discovery
I think some of the purest discoveries are those that, you know, like we discussed making independently of Galileo's discoveries. I would like to award the Nobel Prize for discoveries made serendipitously rather than looking for a particular thing. And because you're not looking for something, you're not susceptible to an inevitable bias in a prejudice that sneaks into all scientist minds,. which is called confirmation bias.
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