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Thomas Gold

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

Thomas Gold

Communication

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Thomas Gold is saying that during the Cold War, he wished the barrier between East and West was higher so people could clearly observe how science advanced independently in each region. He then concludes that scientific progress did not follow the same path on both sides without communication.

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