Re:What's the point of writing good scientific software?
by dantheman on Friday February 08, 2013 @02:34PM
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Yeah, this is what make me fed up with academia -- it's no longer really about the work.
I like Feynman's quote "It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated." [1]
I like Feynman's quote "It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated." [1]
[1] http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html