“ Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look. ”
On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: βIn many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible β and in which it may indeed appear necessary, as the telescope may have β but without a market the idea will not sell, and in the absence of the technical and social infrastructure to support it, the invention will not survive.
~ James Burke
Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.