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On 5/8/2010 5:40 PM, andrel wrote:
>> Ah, but no - that just shows that the dude had a sense of humour.
>> (Something which apparently nobody today expects scientists to have...)
>>
> Oh come on, I am I scientist too...
> Ok, I see what you mean.
What does make one a scientist? Someone once told me with all of the
things I do I should be a scientist.
... My thought was, "By experimenting with the world around me, and
observing the effects ... doesn't that by definition make me one?"
Then again, I'm not a professor, I have no college degree, and my career
choice is "Code Monkey" so, does that exclude me from being a scientist?
Do I need a career as a researcher to consider myself a scientist?
You see. That simple statement she made threw me into an existential
crisis ...
I'm socially awkward... but, that only makes me a nerd, not a scientist :)
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~Mike
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