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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" Isaac Asimov
by jeffwass 11y ago
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
Isaac Asimov
- hn9780470248775 11y agoAnd then, in by far the majority of cases, after much head scratching and scribbling, the "That's funny" turns into "Doh!" But in an extreme minority of cases, when the "That's funny" remains ...
- jeffwass 11y agoAbsolutely. Like the handful of cases we "discovered" room temperature superconductivity. Until we tracked down something shorting somewhere in our system :-)