No one in history who has claimed humans as a whole have more potential than we believe, has ever been mistaken. The belief in humans’ boundless capacity for innovation and discovery has proven to be a fundamental truth of our existence.
Many esteemed thinkers have championed this thought:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- William James: “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.“
Conversely, some notable figures have incorrectly taken the otherside:
- Albert Michelson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, famously declared in 1903 that “The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered.“
- Lord Kelvin in 1895 said that “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.“
Every leap beyond skepticism reminds us that the frontier of human potential extends further than we know.
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