I can’t possibly disagree more. The importance of a round earth for oceangoing navigation and trade was ALWAYS of huge importance, and EVEN if I allow you to dismiss it, there are plenty of other examples where our knowledge is or was woefully inadequate even for what we want to do. You might say to a peasant it doesn’t matter what shape the earth is, but you could never say he didn’t need to know about the disease vectors of effluent in the water EVEN if he didn’t know. We are as we speak trying to understand cancer in greater and greater detail because want to cure it, but it’s not hugely more important today to cure disease than it was in the past.
The importance of a round earth for oceangoing navigation and trade was ALWAYS of huge importance
I find it unlikely that they didn’t notice if it was hugely important.
but you could never say he didn’t need to know about the disease vectors of effluent in the water
Useful, but difficult to find out, not unlike economics, psychology, and several other things we still don’t fully understand. I suppose we are making progress in these areas. We’re learning more, and it’s not becoming more important. We are still nowhere near done. I didn’t think of this, and I adjust my position towards yours, but I still disagree with the original quote.
but it’s not hugely more important today to cure disease than it was in the past.
They knew what they could do with their level of technology. Absolutely nothing. This is no different than everything about nanotechnology that we don’t know and won’t learn until we can actually make nanobots.
I can’t possibly disagree more. The importance of a round earth for oceangoing navigation and trade was ALWAYS of huge importance, and EVEN if I allow you to dismiss it, there are plenty of other examples where our knowledge is or was woefully inadequate even for what we want to do. You might say to a peasant it doesn’t matter what shape the earth is, but you could never say he didn’t need to know about the disease vectors of effluent in the water EVEN if he didn’t know. We are as we speak trying to understand cancer in greater and greater detail because want to cure it, but it’s not hugely more important today to cure disease than it was in the past.
I find it unlikely that they didn’t notice if it was hugely important.
Useful, but difficult to find out, not unlike economics, psychology, and several other things we still don’t fully understand. I suppose we are making progress in these areas. We’re learning more, and it’s not becoming more important. We are still nowhere near done. I didn’t think of this, and I adjust my position towards yours, but I still disagree with the original quote.
They knew what they could do with their level of technology. Absolutely nothing. This is no different than everything about nanotechnology that we don’t know and won’t learn until we can actually make nanobots.
Well, cancer used to be quite rare when few people lived past forty.