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A thought just struck me.

The difference between miracle and science is that turning lead into gold would be miraculous. But turning gold into lead would be just as fantastic for a scientist as turning lead into gold.

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andygee 7 Dec 22
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The difference is that the scientist would understand why it happened. Someone who deemed it a miracle wouldn't, and thus wouldn't be able to reproduce it. Once it was reproduced again and again, the miracle would be trivialized.

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How about turning failure into money? That's the real miracle.

Just for the record, virtually every railroad in the US operated mostly in bankruptcy and yet managed to pay gilded-era salaries to the higher-ups. Does that count?

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