Re: "first form an hypothesis..."

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, felina wrote:

> > > 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.


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

Um.   I don't think I understand.  Are you saying that the above method
doesn't work, that it is a myth?

That we are lying to ourselves?



> If so, the only method is that a physicist be narcisistic enough to be
> admitted in the club !!

ROTFL!!!!   Now THAT I can relate to!  It certainly was my own narcissism
that drew me to science in the first place.  Little did I know that my
efforts to become a "science expert" would force me to confront the
Unknown directly, and tear my bloated ego into little tiny bits.


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