Science Alert February 12, 2019
Robert H. Goddard said “every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realised, it becomes commonplace.” Science has the power to change the world, but it’s not always an easy path to enlightenment. At many junctures throughout history, proponents of revolutionary ideas have come up against criticism and pushback from the establishment. Science is all about experimentation, trial, error, and evidence. It may have taken years, but each of the following five ideas, once considered preposterous or silly, has now been accepted as correct: Continental drift ; Evolution ; Heliocentricity ; Antiseptic ; Reaching the stars …read more.
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