>>11330262I was more referring to the poor hygene standards resulting in discovery.
Safety means no accidents, but also no happy accidents, and thus more time required to innovate and smaller and more infrequent leaps. We need to bring things together that people wouldn't have thought of. That means the opposite of safety, where everything is sealed off.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/what-happens-when-chemists-dont-wash-their-hands/381587/If you haven't died before the age of 40 due to exposure to a new thing previously unknown to man, you're not a real innovator.
This applies to physics, chemistry, engineering, space travel, art, poetry, war, all of it.
Innovation and risk go together like bread and butter and the idea of labs or institutions of learning being """"""""""safe""""""""" should make you want to flee from them as soon as possible. Any institution that prioritises safety will become a creative wasteland.
Teach children welding again.
