[SunkenCiv]

...In one scenario, suggested earlier in the decade by Levison and his colleagues, Neptune and its three larger compatriots -- Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus -- were once packed together into a region only about half the diameter of Neptune's current orbit...

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"When a thing is new, people say: 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: 'Anyway, it is not new.'" -- William James, 1896

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"Theories have four stages of acceptance: i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; iv) I always said so. -- J.B.S. Haldane, 1963

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[Eaker]

Your William James quote came in handy on a CPAC thread.

Thanks!