Good points, PF. It is important to note that when scientists/theorists tackle "small" issues--ie., specifics of gravity, specifics of cell division, specifics of ethnogenesis, etc they discover and cover more ground than the "grand theorists" of old like Marx and Freud [both later found to be mostly erroneous]. They're also prone to making less mistakes. On the specialized "small" fronts of technology/human sciences the notion of impossibility may not be an issue since there are SO MANY fine points to discover/analyze.
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Originally posted by Pathfinder
You sound like the person (I forget who it was) from the 19th century that said "Everything that can be invented, has been invented".
I remember when I was a boy, the majority of people believed that projecting a picture into ones living room from an invisible signal passing through the air from miles away was not within the realm of possibility.
When I was born my fathers form of transportation was a mule and buckboard.
He watched a picture projected into his living from more than a quarter of a million miles away of a man walking on the moon.
While, in my mind, I think some things may be impossible, I believe that someone in the future will fail to understand that it is impossible and will achieve the "impossible".
Thus I believe the statement to be true.
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