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- From: rhatcher@fnala.fnal.gov
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - INDRA SINHA'
- Date: 28 Jan 93 10:25:39 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.102539.1@fnala.fnal.gov>
- References: <abian.727929756@pv343f.vincent.i> <1541700026@gn.apc.org>
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- In article <1541700026@gn.apc.org>, antennae@gn.apc.org writes:
- > Hello again,
- >
- > what I meant was that you don't become a scientist as great as those
- > named without questioning everything every day.
- >
- > all the best,
- >
- > indra
-
- Okay, okay, some one is going to do it ... might as well be me:
-
- I question the validity of such a generalization that the only
- route to becoming a great scientist is to question *everything*
- *every* day. I think some of those great scientists under discussion
- did indeed come to accept a large majority of occurances as "given"s
- that did *not* need questioning, each and every day. Maybe what
- you meant was "something new, every day" or "everything, some days"?
-
- Indra, as previously discussed in this or a related group I'm going
- to invoke CARP (Cite Appropriate References, Please) on your statement.
- I'd just love to see documentation that each and every great scientist
- (named previously) did indeed question everything on a daily basis.
-
- Hey, don't get mad a me for disbelieving in your little platitude,
- I'm only following it to the letter.
-
- -robert
- hatcher@msupa.pa.msu.edu
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