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Re: Favorite Quotes
2x6spds #346166 04/26/11 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted By: 2x6spds
(Quote by Trofim Lysenko)

Not everyone who makes scientific pronouncements is pronouncing scientific truth.

I take it that your point is that Lysenko, a prominent Soviet scientist of the early 20th century, was later exposed to be a fraud, to be doing bad science.

My rebuttal is that his work was exposed as fraudulent by his peers. Science moves on. He was a fly on the windshield, or to use another insect metaphor, a bug in the program that was identified and removed.


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2x6spds #346247 04/26/11 11:31 PM
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Re: Favorite Quotes
medic8r #346248 04/26/11 11:35 PM
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Actually, it was more a problem of Cinderella's sisters' toes.

Lysenko forced facts to fit preconceived scientific theories in order to justify and give scientific force to the larger philosophical/socialist theories.


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Re: Favorite Quotes
2x6spds #346256 04/27/11 12:26 AM
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Geez, Jack's been talking to my wife, apparently.

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tomtuttle #346261 04/27/11 01:05 AM
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Head nodding.


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2x6spds #349063 05/24/11 04:00 PM
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- Thomas Edison, in a 1931 conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone.


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medic8r #349067 05/24/11 04:47 PM
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Re: Favorite Quotes
MarkSJohnson #349071 05/24/11 05:48 PM
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Edison had some other good ones. My other favorite, which was my sig here for a while, is:

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."


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