According to The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "the discovery fundamentally altered how chemists conceived of solid matter, since previously they had believed that all crystals consisted of entirely regular, repeating configurations of atoms."
After reporting his ground breaking findings Professor Shechtman was forced to leave his work and was med with ridicule and scorn from his colleagues, but 29 years later he receives the Nobel Prize.
Galileo Galilei said, "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
But this time it wasn´t even enough to discover the facts. The "common sense" among the other scientists denied them to see what was their in front of their eyes. A picture doesn´t always say more than a thousand words of excuse.
ReplyDeleteExactly Apmel, but that is because we humans have a tendency to see only what we
ReplyDeletea) believe we should see,
b) expect we will see or sometimes even
c) what we want to see.
It is fortunate that some among us have the ability to tell us what they in fact do see and stay true to their observation in spite of ridicule by their peers.
That is in itself well worthy a Nobel prize.
I can´t even see my own misspellings in time :))
ReplyDeleteHUH misspellings, don´t see them buddy! ;)
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