Re: Popular(izing) Science

From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 16:16:48 MST


Well that's why you don't get these ugly public brawls with
mathematicians.

   :)

jm

On 21 Feb 2001, at 22:58, Mikael Johansson wrote:

> <snip>
>
>
> > **I've not met many scientists I truly disliked, though I've read
> > (and read of) a good number of insufferable ones with the decidedly
> > unscientific attitude that "If the facts don't fit the theory, they
> > must be disposed of."
>
> Now _THAT'S_ an attitude rarely seen in my field. There isn't that much of
> fitting facts to theory within pure mathematics... :-)
>
> // Mikael Johansson
>

John Marlow



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