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- From: EYF@NIHCU.BITNET
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.stat-l
- Subject: Re: Isaac Asimov on meta-analysis
- Message-ID: <STAT-L%92091311092121@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 15:04:45 GMT
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- > " I have got the works of all the old masters. I weigh them against
- > each other - balance the disagreements - analyze the conflicting statements -
- > decide which is probably correct - and come to a conclusion. That is the
- > scientific method. At least as I see it"
- >
- >
- > Amateur scientist Lord Dorwin
- > in Asimov's Foundation.
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- In all the replies to this quotation, no one seems to be
- aware that Asimov was being ironic. He was writing about a
- society in which no one did original science and Lord Dorwin
- represented the numbing orthodoxy which was suspicious of
- new ideas and new research.
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- Mark Regets
- EYF@NIHCU
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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