I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how… - Isaac Asimov

Ese mismo año, un grupo de astrónomos encabezado por Cornell H. Mayer recibió ondas de
radio procedentes de Venus y quedó atónito al ver que la intensidad de esas ondas equivalía a la que
cabía esperar de un objeto mucho más caliente de lo que se creía que era Venus. De ser eso cierto, no
podría haber océano planetario en Venus; de hecho, no podía haber agua líquida de ninguna clase (y así
se echó a perder mi pobre novela, que sólo hacía dos años que había sido publicada).

Votbinnik had Jandorf practically in Zugzwang (his pieces all tied up, Bill explained)

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.

I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady liquid heat up at the very center of the glow.

In a lifetime of being wrong at many a point, I was never more wrong. It was I, not he, who was wandering in the periphery. It was he, not I, who lived in the blaze.

I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge;' the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.

But is that true? Because a tree in spring buds and comes greenly into leaf, are those leaves therefore the tree? If the newborn twigs and their leaves were all that existed, they would form a vague halo of green suspended in mid-air, but surely that is not the tree. The leaves, by themselves, are no more than trivial fluttering decoration. It is the trunk and limbs that give the tree its grandeur and the leaves themselves their meaning.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. 'If I have seen further than other men,' said <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/135106.Isaac_Newton" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a>, 'it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.