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“The famous physicist Max Planck was talking about the resistance of the human mind, even the bright human mind, to new ideas…. And he said science advances one funeral at a time, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that and it’s certainly been true in [FIELD X].”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“If you stand up in front of a [FIELD Y] class and say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, you won’t get tenure…. Higher mathematics my be dangerous and lead you down pathways that are better left untrod.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“The more symbols they could work into their writing the more they were revered.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Question: who said these things? A disgrunted professor? Peter Woit<\/a> talking about string theory?
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\nBzzt. Nope it’s Warren Buffett<\/a>. FIELD X= finance, FIELD Y=business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some quotes, with some substitutions, denoted by [], for the actual words: “The famous physicist Max Planck was talking about the resistance of the human mind, even the bright human mind, to new ideas…. And he said science advances one funeral at a time, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that and … <\/p>\n