How can a scientist be skeptical and open to new ideas at the same time?
1 Answer
Sep 8, 2017
Being skeptical in a sense is being open to new ideas, and never truly accepting one idea. You may have conviction about something, but that doesn't mean it's true.
The Nobel Prize went to someone for frontal lobotomies at one time, he had conviction about it, but it surely was not "right" at all. Moreover, many of the things we accept as true now, will be stomped all over 200 years from now.
