The Value of a Dogmatic Attitude

"There is value in having scientists hold too strongly, even dogmatically, to their ideas," she says. "So that the idea stays alive long enough to find and we don't kill it before it's had a chance to survive criticism." She adds: 'If some idea, some crazy idea, turns out to be true, we call this person a genius... But if it doesn't, then they get to be known as a crackpot'