In article <0050ecf7$0$9684$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <st...@removethis.cybersource.com.au> wrote: <SNIP> >> On 2009-06-14 14:04:02 +0100, Steven D'Aprano >> <st...@removethis.cybersource.com.au> said: > >> I think I'm paraphrasing Richard Feynman here, but the >> only way to truly understand something is to do it. > >An amazingly inappropriate quote for a *theoretical* physicist to have said.
The remark of Feynman goes to the heart of science and mathematics. (Try understanding some number theory or string theory by just reading about it.) > >Whether Feynman did or didn't say that, it's clearly untrue: many people do >without understanding. Many people can cook, some people are expert cooks, This is even a classical lack of logic skills. Feynman says a->b, and you attack b->a. <SNIP> >-- >Steven > Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
