PhilGoetz comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 December 2011 04:19:12AM 23 points [-]

"I did not think; I investigated."

Wilhelm Roentgen, when asked by an interviewer what he thought on noticing some kind of light (X-ray-induced fluorescence) apparently passing through a solid opaque object. Quoted in de Solla Price, Science Since Babylon, expanded edition, p. 146.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 December 2011 06:43:03AM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for reading de Solla Price :)