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To: Alamo-Girl
That was my guess. I wanted to mention that each epochial insight has been at the same time the use of a new method. That is roughly equivalent to a new way of thinking. For example, we have been laboring under Einstein's remarkable papers of 1905 for a hundred years. There is nothing epochial about any of the insights discovered under special relativity or brownian motion or the photoelectric effect once the basic idea was published. Use of a method is more of an engineering application than science, which should probably include the scientific method as well.

What we should look for--new method. New way of thinking.

68 posted on 06/13/2005 9:21:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (I know nothing, and less every day)
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To: RightWhale
What we should look for--new method. New way of thinking.

I strongly agree!
76 posted on 06/13/2005 9:40:52 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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