To fund or not to fund - Are some science projects worth pursuing?

The one about napolion and a steam ship is better.Napoleon:"What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense."

no no the best quote would have to be by Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."or"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States."-- T. Craven, FCC Commissioner,"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."-- Lee deForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube,I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943"Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous."-- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1939"The energy produced by the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine."-- Ernst Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, 1933"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."-- Irving Fisher, Yale University Professor of Economics, 1929
(two weeks later, the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started)"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming."-- Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, 1926"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced."-- Scientific American, Jan. 2 edition, 1909"I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped."-- Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."-- Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer, 1888"A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls this instrument a telephone. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires."-- News item in a New York newspaper, 1868"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."-- Dionysius Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London, and author of The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated, 1830sAnd ofcourse every creo argument ever presented

you can find it all over the net one of the sites that has this quote from the ny newspaperFailed predictionsThough i do not have acces to a us libery and the time to go trough all the newspapers from new york in that year to find the article, i do not doubt that the media invented some storry again. Edited by frako, : No reason given.

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CRAP I MISSED THE TOPIC IT WAS SUPOSSED TO GO TO THE ARC TPOIC; CAN A MOD MOWE THIS??Adminnemooseus reply - Do it at the proper topic yourself. And maybe consider working on your spelling and/or typos.Edited by frako, : No reason given.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Hide misplaced message.

Stics and stones for tool use are scientific inventions one of the first you may only use your hands legs and teeth or anything else attached to your body. Clothes are a scientific invention too so nakedness is the key winter shiminter, fire is also an invention.