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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 16th, 2009

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"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." - Donald Foster. True? And if it is, how many scholars do you know?

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  • by iDeath on November 17th, 2009

    iDeath

    I know educated folks but most so-called scholars are fools who love the sound of their own voices. If there were a scholar in the room he/she would not be noticed.

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  • by RosieGHM Jetpacker on November 16th, 2009

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    I don't know if "rejoice" would be the correct word. Maybe "be grateful" would be more nearly the truth. I know one scholar...my son. How many do you know?

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  • by Suby the Coat on November 16th, 2009

    Suby the Coat

    Is self nomination permitted?
    If so I nominate myself.
    I haven't come across any other!

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  • by johngo on November 16th, 2009

    johngo

    Once I had a postgraduate student who was carrying out experiments to test a mathematical model of animal behaviour that I had developed. It was to do with the way ants search for food. She kept messing up the experiments. The ants did some of the things that my model predicted but there were some inconsistent results obviously caused by her incompetence in the laboratory. So I made her check everything, double-check everything, and repeat the experments. She did so and she got the same anomalous results. Then one morning while driving to work I realised that my expectation was mistaken. The experiments produced what I ought to have expected but didn't. I think this was my most important discovery of my career. Important too because my student persistently found the data that disconfirmed my expectations. It would have been easier for her to have changed direction, undertaken different experiments, but she knew she was right and stuck by her opinion. She knew she was right and she was: I knew I was right and I wasn't.

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  • by good squarel on November 16th, 2009

    good squarel

    That's against company policy, but I agree that its good to just willy nilly it and go, like so yah, until your good and strong with it and makes you sick like unto a sicko.

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