Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress
Conversations with Tyler
I'm Stolen From Ernst Gilder
When you have a powerfully moving forward set of people thinking about ideas, whether the idea is true is likely to be secondary. This is a point I'm stolen from Ernst Gilder, and I think it is very true. And yet somehow the Royal Society decides nothing except an actual experiment - that we are going to demand that nature tell us or tell one of us. It seems not an accident that it's in England,. The same error when you're developing rule of law, constitutional thought, some theory of the rights of man, other stranger movements.
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