Comment by bluGill

4 years ago

We did. Often we wish they could have got more decimal points in a measurement, or had known how to check for some factor. Despite all the gains and potential breakthroughs lost nobody is willing to repeat them or anything like them. I know just enough medically people given 2 weeks to live who were still around 10 years latter that I can't think of any situation where I'd make an exception.

Though what a lot is is also open to question. Much of what we learned isn't that useful to real world problems. However some has been important.