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Not the best examples. They both came up with analytical models and tested them. They were also amazing outliers. In that that achieved so much.

For your everyday empirical research there is a lot of luck. You have to disprove a lot of possibilities to get to the true data. And as we only reward the positive findings your lucky if you’re test that one truth. If you’re sifting through drugs to find there possible other uses you’re going to have a lot of null results. But those are good they’re still extra knowledge.



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