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eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) writes:


>I think --- but it's from memory.  I think Francis Bacon may have said
>``He that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth
>not''.  How apt! :-)

This is excellent. That's one way to tell an expert from one who is not.

An expert knows what he knows AND also knows what he does not know!

The second part is critical since those who really know what they are
talking about also know that sometimes they are conjecturing and that
what they are saying is not known to be true. It seems those who
stretch things beyond the boundaries of science into the realm of
science fiction should say so instead of pretending to provide
rigorous proofs.

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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
