With hindsight we laugh at Bruno's wrong ideas seen in the light of his right ones. Of course most people now (as then) have mostly wrong ideas. Dostoyevsky says in 'Crime and Punishment' that nothing original comes out when all you do is to try to be right. What makes us human is our ability to be strongly and gloriously wrong. We progress towards new truths mostly by accident.
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With hindsight we laugh at Bruno's wrong ideas seen in the light of his right ones. Of course most people now (as then) have mostly wrong ideas. Dostoyevsky says in 'Crime and Punishment' that nothing original comes out when all you do is to try to be right. What makes us human is our ability to be strongly and gloriously wrong. We progress towards new truths mostly by accident.