[lbo-talk] Contradiction

JBrown72073 at cs.com JBrown72073 at cs.com
Tue Dec 11 09:37:58 PST 2007


Jim F. write:
>It sounds like Edelman was paraphrasing the quantum physicist Paul Dirac
>who once said of a paper that he had just read that it wasn't even wrong,
>by which he meant that the author had not proposed a hypothesis of theory
>that could be falsified when tested.
>
>Jim F.

Yeah, I've also seen it attributed to Niels Bohr, or Wolfgang Pauli, or... well, at least it's generally attributed to theoretical physicists.

Jenny Brown </HTML>



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