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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/23
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Date: 1997-05-23T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5m3ptf$lfp@ns2.emirates.net.ae>,
Mark Allen Framness <framness@NOSPAM.EMIRATES.NET.AE> wrote:
>In message <01bc66fa$ee7910e0$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> - "Nick Roberts"
><Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> writes:
>:>
>
>
>:>These 'dreamers' may never have been practical or realistic. But they
>:>invented the science.
>:>
>:>If someone says "what if...?", it is fine to say "nice idea, but not
>:>today", but at the same we should not get into the habit of 'stepping on'
>:>those who suggest ideas. I don't suppose Robert was trying to give this
>:>impression at all, but I hope nobody wrongly gets this impression. We need
>:>our dreamers.
>
>Yeah sure this is all true, but we can not lose fact of the sight that science
>is much closer to EVOLUTION rather than REVOLUTION, you do say this but I want
>to pull out that salient point.  Scientific revolutions do happen but they are
>far and few in betweeen.

Read much Kuhn? :)