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From: "Giovanni Drogo [drogo@rn.bastiani.it]" <nospam@ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
Subject: :-) Re: Philosophers
Date: 1998/01/26
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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Mike Whiten wrote:
> > Philosophy is what scientists do in their spare time.

There was the following comparison in a SF book :

"the most expensive are experimental physicists (they use very large plants,
 the biggest computers and lot of papers, pencils and wastebaskets) ;
 then come astronomers (they use big plants, big computers, paper, pencils
 and wastebaskets) ;
 then come theoretical physicists, which use computers, paper, pencils and
 wastebaskets ;
 next come pure mathenaticians, which use paper, pencils and wastebaskets ;
 last come philosophers, who do not use the wastebasket"


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