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I hate this quotation and find it not only false but sad. It feels as if a physicist would say "physics is not about mass, energy and matter, it is about ODE a
by enriquto 5y ago
I hate this quotation and find it not only false but sad. It feels as if a physicist would say "physics is not about mass, energy and matter, it is about ODE and PDE."
And yes, astronomy is pretty much about looking at the shadows of sticks under the sun; and this includes more complex "sticks" like telescopes.
- seoaeu 5y agoI've always interpreted the statement to mean "theoretical CS is the only real CS: everything else is just glorified software engineering."
- DangitBobby 5y agoI also disagree with the quote. I think it's fair to say that the goal of Computer Science is to generally improve computing, but the purpose of astronomy is not to generally improve telescopes, nor biology microscopes, etc.