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'Dirt people'... I love the way that physicists sneer at other sciences. To quote Rutherford: 'All Science Is Either Physics or Stamp Collecting'.
by Daub 3y ago
'Dirt people'... I love the way that physicists sneer at other sciences. To quote Rutherford: 'All Science Is Either Physics or Stamp Collecting'.
- randoglando 3y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/
- JKCalhoun 3y agoWhen I was young and dumb and student-teaching high school Physics class, I called the study of Biology the "Naming of Parts" in an ill-advised effort to dissuade one of my students from pursuing Biology. While kind of funny, it was a cruel thing to try to dissuade anyone from their passion. Also, unbeknownst to me, the Biology teacher had just walked in behind me at that precise moment. Also, I think engineers generally get the brunt of it — as in the joke: Mathematician: Three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime, so by induction all odd numbers are prime. Physicist: Three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime, nine is .... experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, etc. Engineer: Three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime, nine is prime, eleven is prime, etc.
- fuzzfactor 3y agoHe who dies with the most different chemicals wins.