Re: "first form an hypothesis..."

[felina <felina@TIN.IT>]

YeaH! Sure!.  I am going to include this in my Science Myth Encyclopedia. 

But why do scientists, and physicists in particular, like to spread this sort of myths about themselves?  Is it part of their narcisistic personalities?  If so, the only method is that a physicist be narcisistic enough to be admitted in the club !!

 

I apologize if all this sounds like flame, but please, let's all come down to earth and be humble and true to our profession !!

BTW, you might want to have a look at "La Baignoire d'Archimède" ( Archimede's bathtub) by S. Ortoli and N. Witkowski.

Regards

Rita

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>

To: <PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU>

Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 9:14 PM

Subject: Re: "first form an hypothesis..."

> >My favorite "method" is to beat my head against a problem far into the
> >night with no progress in sight, then to finally doze off.  Suddenly at
> >about 3AM the full-blown solution appears, interrupting a dream and
> >causing me to wake up in shock and write it down before it vanishes from
> >my mind (which it will if I don't write it down.)
>
> Exactly my method, Bill! It's also the best way to find a really
> obscure bug in your code.
>
> Leigh
>