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oso2k on June 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Physicists Should Stop Saying Silly Things about P...

I've heard many research scientists say, "Science is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

sigmaml on June 25, 2014 [–]

I heard a variant thereof. ``Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Science is what I'm doing once I figure that out!"

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