(12-11-2018, 06:40 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Do I ? So you think I'm a defensive anti-modernist ? That's pretty funny. I guess when you can extricate yourself from performing virtuoso calculations and simulations and being the forum know-it-all, you also moonlight as a psychoanalyst.
You Renaissance man, you.
We have 806 members, there are probably 50 to 100 people on that list at least who would use something like trigonometry everyday, and I bet they would be able to read and understand a portion of many scientific papers.
They do not need to be anything special, they just have to keep and open mind.
That is the real difference between scientists and the dogmatic, one lives in a bubble bound by belief, while the other is free to explore everything with an open mind!
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