Caledonian2 comments on Einstein's Speed - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 May 2008 02:48AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 21 May 2008 03:26:12PM 0 points [-]

What did he have that we all seem to find so elusive?

A willingness to reconsider his assumptions, an openness to new explanations, and an abiding belief that hypotheses should always be tested against the data - and discarded if they were found wanting.

None of these traits are common, and they are especially rare here.