Innovation | Paul Evans http://www.paul-evans.org “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool” (As You Like It) Sun, 20 Jun 2021 18:10:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 The three phases of acceptance of a new theory http://www.paul-evans.org/2021/06/the-three-phases-of-acceptance-of-a-new-theory/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-three-phases-of-acceptance-of-a-new-theory Sun, 20 Jun 2021 18:08:32 +0000 http://www.paul-evans.org/?p=512 Reading Martin Nowak & Roger Highfield’s verygood ‘Super Cooperators’, there’s this observation: “There’s a telling joke among scientists that every new theory has to pass though three phases of “acceptance”: first, it is completely ignored; second, it is obviously wrong; and third, it is obviously right, but everyone knew that anyway.” (p63 of the 2011 […]

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“There’s a telling joke among scientists that every new theory has to pass though three phases of “acceptance”: first, it is completely ignored; second, it is obviously wrong; and third, it is obviously right, but everyone knew that anyway.” (p63 of the 2011 Canongate edition).

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