After all, those physicists' forebears were equally convinced about Newton's theory until it proved wrong.
Cole would have been disappointed not to get a proper contact but it proved enough as a wrong-footed Foster made a horrible mess of saving it.
"He has come back and proved me wrong and it looks like he has the hunger, " Dryden told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
It has proved the critics wrong so far, but early next year the question will return - will Spain need a full bailout?
It proved to be the wrong decision as a fired-up Leicester came back at the hosts, and Humphreys' try - after he collected his own chip ahead - finally got them on the scoreboard.
From the standpoint of responding to a challenge, it feels good to have proved people wrong.
And that proved to be correct, but it almost could not have been wrong, because you can't sustain it.
Once he had an idea in his head he pushed it to its logical conclusion and if he was proved wrong he simply shifted to another idea, which he pursued with equal certainty.
Dr Svensmark agrees it would be wrong for anyone to claim the case has been proved.
Apple's iPhone has proved wrong skeptics who said the handset wouldn't resonate with consumers in Japan because it lacked many uniquely Japanese features.
That proved the wrong decision as the lethargic Scots stumbled into World Cup qualifying and ended a campaign before it really began.
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