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From: [email protected] (Neal Howard)
Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Charles L. Creegan) writes:
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>What about Kekule's infamous derivation of the idea of benzene rings
>from a daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails? Is this
>specific enough to count? Certainly it turns up repeatedly in basic
>phil. of sci. texts as an example of the inventive component of
>hypothesizing.
I sometimes wonder if Kekule's dream wasn't just a wee bit influenced by
aromatic solvent vapors ;-) heh heh.
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"Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps
we shall learn the truth." -- August Kekule' (1890)
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