pnrjulius comments on Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions - Less Wrong

71 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 August 2007 10:27PM

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Comment author: Kevin_Reid 26 August 2007 01:35:09AM 11 points [-]

Nitpick:

The Secret of Life was infinitely beyond the reach of science! Not just a little beyond, mind you, but infinitely beyond!

But Kelvin (in your quote) qualified it with "... hitherto entered on". Whether or not "infinitely" is fitting, doesn't this imply that Kelvin did not think that future scientific inquiry could not succeed?

Comment author: pnrjulius 29 May 2012 03:43:51AM 3 points [-]

Kelvin was smart enough to hedge his bets?