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*[[Irving Fisher]], professor of economics at Yale, declared a few days before the 1929 stock market crash, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."<ref>Quoted on Oct. 17, 1929.</ref>

*[[Irving Fisher]], professor of economics at Yale, declared a few days before the 1929 stock market crash, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."<ref>Quoted on Oct. 17, 1929.</ref>

*Philipp von Jolly, professor for physics and mathematics at the University of Munich, advised [[Max Planck]] in 1874 not to study physics as almost everything was already discovered, and all that remained was to fill a few unimportant holes.

*Philipp von Jolly, professor for physics and mathematics at the University of Munich, advised [[Max Planck]] in 1874 not to study physics as almost everything was already discovered, and all that remained was to fill a few unimportant holes.

*[[Aristotle]] believed in the [[spontaneous generation]] of life from inanimate matter; experts adhered to his theory for over two thousand years.

*[[Aristotle]] had "quaint" notions of [[physics]] (such as the idea that force must be continuously applied to keep a body in motion; he had no idea of [[friction]] or [[air resistance)). He believed in the [[spontaneous generation]] of life from inanimate matter; experts adhered to his theories for over two thousand years.

*[[Jean Boulliard]] of the French Academy of Sciences claimed that mechanical reproduction of human speech was an impossibility.

*[[Jean Boulliard]] of the French Academy of Sciences claimed that mechanical reproduction of human speech was an impossibility.

*[[Sir George Bidell Airy]], Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, persuaded the British government to discontinue funding for Charles Babbage's analytical engine on the grounds that it was "worthless."  Modern astronomy, of course, relies heavily on computers that wouldn't have been possible without Babbage's work.

*[[Sir George Bidell Airy]], Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, persuaded the British government to discontinue funding for Charles Babbage's analytical engine on the grounds that it was "worthless."  Modern astronomy, of course, relies heavily on computers that wouldn't have been possible without Babbage's work.