X-Message-Number: 14749 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:39:12 +0200 From: Stasys Adiklis <> Subject: Are we fighting The Progress? References: <> Hi, > "The progress of society is nothing but the slow and far remote result of > steady, laborious, painstaking growth of individuals. [skip]" > -- William Graham Wrong. In order for new ideas to take over - old ideas should be burried. Even the perfectly working practices, principles, ideologies, etc... should be sent to grave in order to make space for even better ideas to take over. Conquer the death and the progress is gone. "An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarised with the ideas from the beginning." Max Planck - Scientific Autobiography (1949) Thats the sad truth. I guess that we are yet to find the right answer to this "siple" question: "to be or not to be?"... -- ICQ: 43912181 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14749