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Old July 15th 18, 02:17 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Making astronomy attractive for experimentalists

On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 2:40:39 AM UTC-6, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
the aggressive empiricists who live in their heads with their own fictional
narrative even when they have run out of road in misusing astronomy.


For whatever reason, it seems that those scientists bent over their test tubes and
their slide rules, with their complicated equations... who clearly don't get out
enough to enjoy the fresh air, or read enough poetry or listen to enough music...
and yet claim to know something that you don't understand which is of genuine use
and value - have hurt you very much by doing so.

John Savard