Comments on: Darwin and Wallace were not just Victorian naturalists who traveled the tropics https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/darwin-and-wallace-were-not-just-victorian-naturalists-who-traveled-the-tropics/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Wangweilin https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/darwin-and-wallace-were-not-just-victorian-naturalists-who-traveled-the-tropics/comment-page-1/#comment-3732583 Wangweilin Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:19:22 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52474#comment-3732583 Mr. Frogg,

I agree. It has long been my perspective that if you ask the right questions they will lead you to the right answers. If genius is added in, then all the better.

]]> By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/darwin-and-wallace-were-not-just-victorian-naturalists-who-traveled-the-tropics/comment-page-1/#comment-3732533 T. Beholder Mon, 06 Jan 2025 03:58:37 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52474#comment-3732533

Luttwak was wrong in every particular except the questions he asked—but those questions were good enough to create an entire subfield of research. May all our errors do such good!

And later, many communities independently discovered that the most effective way to have a network forum engaged on an arbitrary topic is to use provocation in some or other form (from plain trolling to samefagging with a question and wrong answer so that the people are compelled to argue). Hmmm.

]]> By: Phileas Frogg https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/darwin-and-wallace-were-not-just-victorian-naturalists-who-traveled-the-tropics/comment-page-1/#comment-3732443 Phileas Frogg Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:47:49 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52474#comment-3732443 “True Intelligence is not revealed by providing the right answer, but in asking the right question.”

…though the right answer certainly doesn’t hurt.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/darwin-and-wallace-were-not-just-victorian-naturalists-who-traveled-the-tropics/comment-page-1/#comment-3732440 Jim Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:17:57 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52474#comment-3732440 Is this analogous to the Einstein-von Neumann distinction?

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