On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>
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for any variable therein, one can be a rocket scientist. A rocket scientist<br>is really a very sophisticated technician, in a sense. I don't doubt that<br>super-technicians are smart guys, but they can (and often do) convince
<br>themselves of some wacky stuff.<br></blockquote></div><br>In fact, "science" has a rather peculiar usage in English. In Neolatin languages, "rocket scientist" cannot even be literally translated, because engineering, as practical medicine, are considered "know-hows", distinct as such from the sciences they are based on, as speaking a language is distinct from philology...
<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br>