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From: don_b#NoSpam.larry.infi.net (Don A. Berkowitz) As I look back upon my education in chemistry and physics, I see that each year I learned that the stuff I learned the previous year was either a special case of a more general theory, an approximation, or, on occasion, an outright lie! Nonetheless, I needed those lower order approximations to be able to make sense of more general and conceptually more difficult formulations. -- Don A. Berkowitz
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Special Category: Niels Bohr
October 7
November 18
From:Matthew Austern matt#NoSpam.physics.berkeley.edu:
Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
-- Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist
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What used to be called a prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. - AWF Edwards, Nature, 9th March 1971
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March 14
March 14
From: WINDERL#NoSpam.AgResearch.cri.nz (Louise Winder)
'The average scientist is basically toilet-trained to the point where if what
he does is comprehensible to the general public, it means he's not a good
scientist. That's what I thought. I was wrong'
Paul Ehrlich, biologist
Author of 'The Population Bomb'
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Special Category: Albert Einstein March 14 April 18 From: Dr. Stuart Savory savory.pad#NoSpam.sni.de / savory.pad#NoSpam.sni-usa.com "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?". -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
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Special Category: Richard Feynman May 11 Februari 15 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work. -- Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Lecture, 1966.
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Special Category: John B. S. Haldane
From: offordj#NoSpam.aa.wl.com (Jim Offord)
Four stages of acceptance:
i) this is worthless nonsense;
ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
iv) I always said so.
(J.B.S. Haldane, Journal of Genetics #58, 1963,p.464)
December 14
May 28
Probably an adaption of the following:
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say
it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered
before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
-- Louis Agassiz (Swiss naturalist, 1807-1873, attributed)
From: David Croll <david.croll#NoSpam.gmx.ch>
from a german philosopher - i believe it's schopenhauer - there's a thesis...
"Jede Wahrheit durchlॊuft drei stufen:
1. sie wird als lॊcherlich bezeichnet
2. sie wird ernsthaft bekॊmpft
3. sie wird sodann als selbstverstॊndlich akzeptiert."
English translation:
"Every truth goes through three steps
1. It is called ridiculous
2. It is attacked seriously
3. It is accepted as self-evident."
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Special Category: David Hilbert Januari 23 Februari 14 One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. Quoted in H Eves Mathematical Circles Revisited (Boston 1971).
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From: Paul D. Shocklee (pds1#NoSpam.cornell.edu) When in doubt, cause as much confusion as you can, and, with luck, there'll always be a loophole. - Richard Mueller
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April 25 December 15 Special Category: Wolfgang Pauli The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable. -- Wolfgang Pauli
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Special Category: Max Planck April 23 October 4 From: edftz#NoSpam.aol.com (Ed Fitzgerald) An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. -- Max Planck "The Philosophy of Physics" (1936)
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Special Category: Max Planck April 23 October 4 We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. -- Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist.
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From: mdc#NoSpam.math.canterbury.ac.nz (El Technicolour) "The symbols are so illuminating that the fact that the text is incomprehensible doesn't much matter" - A.N. Prior
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From: "donald haarmann" <donald-haarmann#NoSpam.worldnet.att.net> The way to capture a student's attention is with a demonstration where there is a possibility the teacher may die." Attributed to: Jearl Walker, Cleveland State University.
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