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To: AndrewC
Wound? Not in the least. This is progress.

If you don't think that the unexpected result is the most delightful thing to a scientist, then you understand nothing about science, nothing at all.

40 posted on 06/04/2004 9:47:38 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
If you don't think that the unexpected result is the most delightful thing to a scientist, then you understand nothing about science, nothing at all.

Yes, it means more looking, but it also means the repudiation of the theory that makes it "unexpected".

It is not often that the audience at a scientific meeting gasps in amazement during a talk. But that is what happened recently when researchers revealed that they had deleted huge chunks of the genome of mice without it making any discernable difference to the animals.

41 posted on 06/04/2004 9:51:06 AM PDT by AndrewC (I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
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To: Physicist
If you don't think that the unexpected result is the most delightful thing to a scientist, then you understand nothing about science, nothing at all.

Exactly. Of course, if they understood it, they wouldn't be trolls, would they?

58 posted on 06/04/2004 11:01:41 AM PDT by balrog666 (A public service post.)
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