David Grinspoon Quote
Less than eighty years later, we know all these ideas about origins (of Earth, the planets, the Moon, and mountain ranges) to be completely wrong. We’re certainly not any smarter today than they were then, and almost nobody is as smart as George Gamow was. We just have better data, much of it from space exploration. As we navigate this age of extrasolar planet discovery, supercomputer climate predictions, personalized gene sequencing, and in-depth planetary exploration, I wonder how our confident statements about what we know now will seem to anybody reading them in another fifty years.
David Grinspoon
Less than eighty years later, we know all these ideas about origins (of Earth, the planets, the Moon, and mountain ranges) to be completely wrong. We’re certainly not any smarter today than they were then, and almost nobody is as smart as George Gamow was. We just have better data, much of it from space exploration. As we navigate this age of extrasolar planet discovery, supercomputer climate predictions, personalized gene sequencing, and in-depth planetary exploration, I wonder how our confident statements about what we know now will seem to anybody reading them in another fifty years.
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