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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Importance of Being Wrong
When she defended on her PhD thesis the director of the Princeton Observatory Henry Norris Russell who was the most respected astronomer at the time he told her you know that that makes no sense. He wanted to demonstrate that she was clearly wrong and in the subsequent years collected data and analyzed it and realized that she was right. She became a chair of the astronomy department at Harvard the decades later the same role that I have right now. It's a very fundamental ingredient in doing research that you shouldn't be trapped by prejudice you should allow yourself to be wrong there is nothing bad about being wrong you can, says Hawking.
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