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Diminishing returns in science is a snapshot illusion: somebody keeps restocking the table, and new fields make progress easy again.

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  1. Michael Nielsen

    Physicist and writer, co-author of the standard textbook…

    if somebody, you know, is standing behind the dessert table and is replenishing, restocking the desserts and keeps kind of you know, adding adding new ones in, it may turn out that you know, a little bit later a much better desserts appear.

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