Except in very narrow cases where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you you're toast anyway.
You know there was a time just before I started to study physical science when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
