I’m a bit sad that no-one jumped on the story of Galileo and Urban VIII., but having Galileo, Wegner, Darwin and Russel’s teapot in on discussion already made my day.
Just one more thing to remark, no offence to anyone in this topic: I detect a slight undercurrent of ascribing pivotal scientific breakthroughs to singular personalities, and I just want to throw in a kilo new-ton of “standing on the shoulders of giants”. Which reminds me, someone told me that Newton was insulting Robert Hooke when writing that…)
Anyway, I wanted to opine to everyone lurking or finding this topic in the far future that I believe we are really good at telling stories about people, but not so good about ideas and scientific progress. And many of this stories are getting in the way, just like folk-lore about non-existing entities in any encyclopedia…
