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Robert A. Heinlein

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science

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Throughout history, experts have often confidently declared certain scientific achievements impossible, only for those limits to be later proven wrong. This pattern shows how the progress of science frequently involves overturning established beliefs about what cannot be done.

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