The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don`t work, you must throw them away. Don`t waste any neurons on what doesn`t work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.
Carl SaganAmerican astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author 9 November 1934 — 20 December 1996 |
published in The Skeptical Inquirer, 1995 January-FebrurayPage 24 |
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