The History of Science Has Never Been Like That

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The first half of the 20th century was just absolutely amazing and atypical in the history of science. The idea that you would have multiple scientific revolutions all during a few decade period is very unusual. We already had quantum field theory, but we had to figure out how to use it. It's much closer to the other idea that the low hanging fruit has already been picked.

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