[Chaos-l] Quotes

Jon Stewart-Taylor joncst at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 12 23:18:23 EDT 2012


I stumbled on these while looking for quite different things.  I like  
them anyway.

>> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds  
>> new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'  but 'That's funny....'
>
> (One person commented: I thought the most exciting phrase in science  
> was "The grant has been approved".)

> The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."

*smirk*

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