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- From: thelma@csd4.csd.uwm.EDU (Thelma Lubkin)
- Subject: Re: thinking that numbers are God(tm)
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 20:49:55 GMT
- References: <1jn1ssINN5p3@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Steven L Harrington (sharring@cs.tamu.EDU) wrote:
- : In article <1jmig5$ep4@agate.berkeley.edu> cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
- : >
- : >While it is true that numbers are valuable tools, this insistence on
- : >some men on the net to not belive in ANYTHING unless it can be
- : >numerically stated is really stupid. You all remind me of carpenters
- : >who have only one hammer and won't acknowledge the existence of
- : >anything but nails.
-
- : [deletia]
-
- : I don't necessarily disagree w/ the anti-numbers and anti-science
- : crowd completely, but I would just like to suggest that this thinking
- : could possibly be counterproductive if too many folks buy into it too
- : dogmatically.
-
- : Further, in defense of science and math, I will ask the somewhat
- : rhetorical question: What gave us airplanes, microwave ovens, tv's,
- : computers, stereos, telephones, electric lights, heart bypass surgery,
- : et. al. ???
-
- I think you misinterpret the lady: it is the true scientist, not
- the anti-scientific person, who goes beyond the mere collection of
- numbers; he (sorry, I still like the generic 'he') understands both
- their uses and misuses.
-
- --thelma
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