philosophy of discovery

Cliff Lundberg (cliff@noe.com)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:38:07 -0700

Biochmborg@aol.com wrote:

>Unless you try to argue that Wexler was the only person who could have made
>this discovery, you will simply obscure the discussion all the more with this
>irrelevancy.

I wonder how many important discoveries can be attributed to one individual.
I mean, what are some cases where an individual's discovery really was a
leap, where it wasn't something that was in the air, that was going to be
discovered by someone, given the prevailing state of the science? In
modern times, this must be very rare.

--Cliff Lundberg  ~  San Francisco  ~  cliff@noe.com