Lord Kelvin is one of the most celebrated scientists of the nineteenth century. He also, however, made two statements that go down as among the worst predictions of all time. What were they?
Answer: In 1895, he dismissed any possibility of human flight by declaring ‘heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible’. Five years later in 1900 he performed another own goal by declaring that ‘there is nothing new to discover in physics now.’
Source: Quantum Bits and Quantum Secrets by Oliver Morsch
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