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#346166 - 04/26/11 10:53 AM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 08/05/09 Posts: 6015 Loc: Milky Way Galaxy |
"The sky is falling"
Chicken Little
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#346174 - 04/26/11 11:17 AM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 02/05/06 Posts: 6469 Loc: Fredericksburg, Virginia |
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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#346247 - 04/26/11 07:31 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 12/30/03 Posts: 6331 Loc: Cleveland, Ohio |
"There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer" - Marcel Proust
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#346248 - 04/26/11 07:35 PM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 03/16/02 Posts: 3115 Loc: CA, USA |
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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#346256 - 04/26/11 08:26 PM
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![]() axiomite Registered: 06/20/03 Posts: 8488 Loc: Tacoma |
Geez, Jack's been talking to my wife, apparently.
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life. - Antoinette Bosco
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#346261 - 04/26/11 09:05 PM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 03/16/02 Posts: 3115 Loc: CA, USA |
Head nodding.
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#349063 - 05/24/11 12:00 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 02/05/06 Posts: 6469 Loc: Fredericksburg, Virginia |
"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
- Thomas Edison, in a 1931 conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone.
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#349067 - 05/24/11 12:47 PM
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![]() shareholder in the making ![]() Registered: 09/27/04 Posts: 11437 Loc: Central NH |
Hippie.
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#349071 - 05/24/11 01:48 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 02/05/06 Posts: 6469 Loc: Fredericksburg, Virginia |
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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#378988 - 06/22/12 01:32 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 02/05/06 Posts: 6469 Loc: Fredericksburg, Virginia |
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize that in life, they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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