India's Most Advanced Nuclear Reactor Approaches Finish Line (NDTV)

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2. "... do things the way they've always been done, because they've always been done that way"

All too prevalent, in so many spheres of human activity.

I remember once reading an ostensible aphorism of "tradition is a set of answers to which we have forgotten the questions", and my immediate reaction was, "do we know the questions are still relevant ?". I believe the context was traditional marriage and family customs, and probably being used to justify something like brideprices for virgins.

Sad to think that in a field built on so many scientifically determined principles, the path of least thought would still be in play.