## 8. ACADEMIC LIFE

#### Subsections

- 8. academic life - general
- 8.1 rules for research
- 8.2 rules for writing an article
- 8.3 academic life poetry
- 8.4 research quotes
- 8.5 publish and explanation quotes
- 8.6 In the classroom
- 8.7 graduate students
- 8.8 exams
- 8.9 love life
- 8.10 students
- 8.11 staff
- 8.12 remarkable academic institutes

### 8.5 PUBLISH AND EXPLANATION QUOTES

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    From: don_b@larry.infi.net (Don A. Berkowitz)

    As I look back upon my education in chemistry and physics, I see that each
    year I learned that the stuff I learned the previous year was either a special
    case of a more general theory, an approximation, or, on occasion, an outright
    lie!  Nonetheless, I needed those lower order approximations to be able to make
    sense of more general and conceptually more difficult formulations.
     -- Don A. Berkowitz

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    Special Category: Niels Bohr
    From:Matthew Austern matt@physics.berkeley.edu:
    Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
          --  Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist

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    What used to be called a prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
     - AWF Edwards, Nature, 9th March 1971

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    From: WINDERL@AgResearch.cri.nz (Louise Winder)

    'The average scientist is basically toilet-trained to the point where if what
    he does is comprehensible to the general public, it means he's not a good
    scientist.  That's what I thought.  I was wrong'
         Paul Ehrlich, biologist
         Author of 'The Population Bomb'

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    Special Category: Albert Einstein
    From: Dr. Stuart Savory    savory.pad@sni.de / savory.pad@sni-usa.com
    "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
    would it?".  -- Albert Einstein  (1879-1955) [German physicist]

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    Special Category: Richard Feynman
    We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to
    make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not
    worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first,
    and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what
    you actually did in order to get to do the work.
    -- Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Lecture, 1966.

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    Special Category: John B. S. Haldane
    From: offordj@aa.wl.com (Jim Offord)

       Four stages of acceptance:

          i)    this is worthless nonsense;
          ii)   this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
          iii)  this is true, but quite unimportant;
          iv)   I always said so.

     (J.B.S. Haldane, Journal of Genetics #58, 1963,p.464)

    Probably an adaption of the following:
    Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say
    it conflicts with the Bible.  Next they say it had been discovered
    before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
    -- Louis Agassiz (Swiss naturalist, 1807-1873)

    From: David Croll <david.croll@gmx.ch>
    from a german philosopher - i believe it's schopenhauer - there's a thesis...

    "Jede Wahrheit durchläuft drei stufen:

    1. sie wird als lächerlich bezeichnet
    2. sie wird ernsthaft bekämpft
    3. sie wird sodann als selbstverständlich akzeptiert."

    English translation:
    "Every truth goes through three steps

    1. It is called ridiculous
    2. It is attacked seriously
    3. It is accepted as self-evident."

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    From: Paul D. Shocklee (pds1@cornell.edu)

    When in doubt, cause as much confusion as you can, and, with luck, there'll
    always be a loophole. - Richard Mueller

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    Special Category: Max Planck
    From: edftz@aol.com (Ed Fitzgerald)

    An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning
    over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul.
    What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing
    generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.
     -- Max Planck "The Philosophy of Physics" (1936)

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    Special Category: Max Planck
    We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have
    existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in
    the future. -- Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist.

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    From: mdc@math.canterbury.ac.nz (El Technicolour)
    "The symbols are so

    illuminating that the fact that the text is
     incomprehensible doesn't much matter"  - A.N. Prior

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    From: "donald haarmann" <donald-haarmann@worldnet.att.net>
    The way to capture a student's attention is with a demonstration where
    there is a possibility the teacher may die."

    Attributed to:  Jearl Walker, Cleveland State University.

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#### Subsections

- 8. academic life - general
- 8.1 rules for research
- 8.2 rules for writing an article
- 8.3 academic life poetry
- 8.4 research quotes
- 8.5 publish and explanation quotes
- 8.6 In the classroom
- 8.7 graduate students
- 8.8 exams
- 8.9 love life
- 8.10 students
- 8.11 staff
- 8.12 remarkable academic institutes

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