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Author Topic:   "You are not really a scientist. You are a biologist"
Chiroptera
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Message 12 of 32 (452785)
01-31-2008 10:40 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Rahvin
01-31-2008 10:16 AM


...this sounds like a physicist making a bad joke....
Well, as someone who actually has a physics degree, I'll let you in on the secret: physicists tend to at least half-believe themselves when they make this joke. There is (or at least was a couple of decades ago) a feeling that physics is a real man's science, while people who just can't handle the intellectual rigor go into fields like biology and sociology. This is (or was) especially true for those in fields like particle physics -- you would be astounded by the level of arrogance in those fields. I was always surprised that those people can fit their heads through ordinary doorways.

Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter;
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters:
A choice of cancer or polio. -- The Rolling Stones

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Chiroptera
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Message 18 of 32 (452799)
01-31-2008 10:58 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by cavediver
01-31-2008 10:46 AM


Well, I don't know about mathematical physics, but pure mathematicians (at least the ones that I've met) are quite humble...at least in comparison.

Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter;
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters:
A choice of cancer or polio. -- The Rolling Stones

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