We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, it’s a habit. – Aristotle
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January 29th, 2010Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that’s not the reason we’re doing it. – Richard Feynman
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January 29th, 2010The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. – Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
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January 20th, 2010It is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, January 8, 1789
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January 5th, 2010If academic research is not devoted to finding the truth, it is a form of propaganda, and not necessarily to be preferred to other forms, much cheaper and perhaps more persuasive. – Conrad Russell (Academic Freedom. London: Routledge. 1993)
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January 1st, 2010If they do that with marks and grades, should they be trusted with experimental data? – Harry Erwin, PhD
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December 31st, 2009You can prove anything if you make up your data. – Jerry Pournelle
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December 30th, 2009Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. – G. K. Chesterton