The New Atheism movement

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Back to the aforementioned, a fellow board member showed me an article talking about people finally venting their frustration at string theory. The argument is that too much attention is being given to it because it's fashionable, when in fact it's astronomically improbable that we'll see any applications of it for the real world during any of our lifetimes. As a result, we're wasting our time on useless knowledge that we can't possibly prove to even be true. I argue to the contrary that the quantum revolution would have been slowed down substantially if medieval Arab mathematicians hadn't wasted so much time discussing imaginary numbers for which they had no application.

We would be living on mars if it weren't for plato and socrates. I mean, those motherfuckers spent an inordinate amount of time on an unfruitful inquiry into the nature of the human soul, and inspired others to do the same.