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Re: Jackson on Jackson



My point, exactly..

On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Dewey Dykstra, Jr. wrote:

Joseph Bellina wrote:

Funny thing, my spouse is a historian of the philosophy of science and
condemns history teachers who lecture by telling stories to entertain the
students. She encourages discussion so that the students can make
meaning of the events, and be wary of historical dogma. It seems to me
that history, properly done (my obvious bias) is more like physics.

cheers

;^)

mightn't it also be that physics as *normally* taught is more like history
as *it's* normally taught?

:^)

Dewey

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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938

"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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