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> A quote I'm somewhat fond of: "A couple months in the laboratory can save a couple hours in the library." Isn't that backwards?
by Mindless2112 13y ago
> A quote I'm somewhat fond of: "A couple months in the laboratory can save a couple hours in the library."
Isn't that backwards?
- Wohui 13y agoNo. It's for effect.
- ISL 13y agoNo. It's correct. I can say this having spent months in the laboratory to learn things which were already known. Who knew that precision quartz pressure gauges were called 'manometers' in the late eighteen-hundreds? I didn't, and thought I'd invented something new for a couple months in my first year of grad school. The adage is a good one. Reading a lot and reading widely pays off.
- netcan 13y agoThat idea might imply that future Google's, using its old self definition are going to play an increasingly critical role in human progress.
- fredgrott 13y agoNo its quite correct, especially holds true for other sciences such as Biology and Chemistry