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From: [email protected] (Herman Rubin)
Subject: Re: Science and Methodology
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Russell Turpin) writes:
>In article [email protected] (Lee Lady) writes:
>> The difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre
>> scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology.
>> It depends on the quality of their THINKING.
....................
>Lee Lady is correct when she asserts that the difference between
>Einstein and the average post-doc physicist is the quality of
>their thought. But what is the difference between Einstein and a
>genius who would be a great scientist but whose great thoughts
>are scientifically screwy?
This example is probably wrong. There is the case of one famous
physicist telling another that he was probably wrong. As I recall
the quote:
Your ideas are crazy, to be sure. But they are not crazy
enough to be right.
The typical screwball is only somewhat screwy.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
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