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From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
Subject: Re: Why scientists popularize premature speculations?
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In article <3ca5mf$3un@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk>, A.R.Diller@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller) writes:
|> In article <D033nK.52C@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Joseph Saponaro <jxs@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
|> >In article <1994Nov29.044228.10139@Princeton.EDU>, rdnelson@tucson.princeton.edu (Roger D. Nelson) writes:
|> >> As for examples, unless you have totally ignored your education,
|> >> practically everything you have learned in science was first a
|> >> conjecture, unsupported by much beyond intuition, and very often
|> >> disputed vigorously before eventual insertion into your textbooks. 
|> >> -- 
|> >>      Roger D. Nelson, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)
|> >
|> >	Hear, hear! What else can we say?
|> 
|> Only that everything found in science books is still only conjectural.
|> 
|> Antoni Diller
|> 
|> 
|> 

Gee, and it works so *well*!  Quite a coincidence.
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