Unconsensus

When you're a scientist, sometimes it's good to be the king, if it means you get to look under a different rock from the one that all the smart people agree is the right one to be looking under.

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  1. “With this achievement, the estimated number of galaxies in the universe had multiplied enormously — to 50 billion, five times more than previously expected,” wrote John Noble Wilford in The New York Times. And some of the older ones – those distant, faint ones that were supposedly impossible for Hubble to see – looked really, really different.

    There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in our philosophies.

    Amazing. Thanks for posting this :)

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  2. Sometimes the "king" in a science group gets the job because he sees possibilities nobody else does. Francis Halzen thought you could build a neutrino detector in the South Pole ice. I thought it was farfetched and unlikely. He was right; I was wrong. He's the chief; I work for his team.

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