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it is attributed to Einstein; I used it for my MSc thesis: "If we knew what it was we were doing it would not be called research."
by Nomad on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 08:54:01 AM EST
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in s discussion with a philosopher specialising in the philosophy of science we were discussing how to explain what was science and what wasn't. and the simplest explaination we could come up with was that you had to imagine scientific knowledge as a baloon. the air inside was the accumulated knowledge and the skin of the baloon was the science happening on the edge of knowledge.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 09:31:37 AM EST
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The surface of that balloon would be a sort of space-filling fractal.


Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 09:43:09 AM EST
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