(January 23, 2015 at 6:12 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 5:57 pm)Chas Wrote: "Influential" doesn't mean intelligent, insightful, or correct.Of course. Though I meant influential in the sense of influencing progress. It's that many were intelligent and insightful that I meant by "greatest."
It's the "correct" part that is the problem.

Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.