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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez
  3. From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
  4. Subject:  Re: ferromagnetism: the QM basis
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.223102.9499@galois.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz
  8. Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
  9. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 22:31:02 GMT
  10. Lines: 13
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  12. pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
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  14. >Experimentalist: someone with their facts straight.
  15. >Theorist:      someone with their arguments straight.
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  17. >Experimentalists who get their arguments straight can fool a theorist
  18. >every time.
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  20. Unless, as in the present situation, the theorist doesn't understand
  21. them well enough to be fooled!  I'd gladly be "fooled" in this case but
  22. it seems I am too foolish!
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