michaelcurzi comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michaelcurzi 02 March 2011 11:37:49PM 21 points [-]

"An accumulation of facts, however large, is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house."

-Clyde Kluckhohn

Comment author: bentarm 03 March 2011 12:00:24PM 7 points [-]

Slightly harsher on the fact-collecting disciplines than Ernest Rutherford: "All science is either physics or stamp-collecting"

Comment author: CronoDAS 05 March 2011 04:00:15AM 1 point [-]

I think we can consider chemistry a branch of physics as far as this quote is concerned...