EVEN SIGMUND FREUD COMMENTED ON THE SUPPRESSION OF INNOVATION BY SCIENCE
Courtesy of Tom Bearden
EVEN SIGMUND FREUD
Courtesy of Tom Bearden
Even Sigmund Freud commented on the suppression of innovation by science, in these words:
"There are three steps in the history of a great discovery. First, its opponents say that the discoverer is crazy; later that he is sane but that his discovery is of no real importance; and last, that the discovery is important but everybody has known it right along."
Arthur C. Clarke himself summarized the treatment of scientific innovation today in these dry terms:
"If they [quantum fluctuations of vacuum] can be [tapped], the impact upon our civilization will be incalculable. Oil, coal, nuclear, hydropower, would become obsolete - and so would many of our worries about environmental pollution." "Don't sell your oil shares yet --
but don't be surprised if the world again witnesses the four stages of response to any new and revolutionary development:
1. It's crazy!
2. It may be possible -- so what?
3. I said it was a good idea all along.
4. I thought of it first."
Arthur C. Clarke, in "Space Drive: A Fantasy That Could Become Reality" NSS ... AD ASTRA, Nov/Dec 1994, p. 38.
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June 2, 1999.