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Speaking as someone with a physics degree, I like to quote Peter Thiel (for once): > This is why physics Ph.D’s are notoriously difficult to work with; because
by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Speaking as someone with a physics degree, I like to quote Peter Thiel (for once):
> This is why physics Ph.D’s are notoriously difficult to work with; because they know fundamental things, they think they know all things.
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- mathattack 13y agoPerhaps also why physicists can be dangerous in Finance. They have all the math skills, but they can also have a little too much faith in those skills.
- tcgv 13y agoThis kind of discussion always brings J. B. S. Haldane to my mind: - Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.[1] [1] Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927), p. 286