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"Experience teaches...that there is no such thing as a thought experiment so clearly presented that no philosopher can misinterpret it..."
"There is a familiar trio of reactions by scientists to a purportedly radical hypothesis: (a) "You must be out of your mind!", (b) "What else is new? Everybody knows that!", and, later — if the hypothesis is still standing — (c) "Hmm. You *might* be on to something!" Sometimes these phases take years to unfold, one after another, but I have seen all three emerge in near synchrony in the course of a half-hour's heated discussion following a conference paper."
"Much of the controversy and anxiety that has enveloped Darwin's idea … can be understood as a…
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