RobinZ comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 04:06PM

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Comment author: Patrick 23 October 2009 12:33:43AM 17 points [-]

"Thus Aristotle laid it down that a heavy object falls faster than a light one does. The important thing about this idea is not that he was wrong, but that it never occurred to Aristotle to check it." Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Comment author: RobinZ 23 October 2009 12:41:29AM 1 point [-]

Just out of curiosity: do you know the origin of that quote? I've tried to find the citation before, but been unable.