Large scientific fields become institutionalized and hostile to new ideas; institutional conservatism is a structural consequence of scale and investment in existing frameworks, not malice.
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Speaker
Stephen WolframEvidence Quote
“when it gets big and you build these giant institutional structures...it's very hard for new things to happen because people say...that doesn't follow the...lines that we were thinking about.”
Source
Stephen Wolfram tackles the big questions—from God and free will to whether AI will destroy us all.— London Institute for Mathematical SciencesCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:03:25 PM
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