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   From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On 13 Feb 2026 18:06:22 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)   
   wrote:   
      
   >john larkin  wrote or quoted:   
   >>Academics seem to enjoy ridiculing people that they see as wrong; you   
   >>can see that here. That's a bad environment for inventing stuff.   
   >   
   >|It is interesting to note that Bohr was an outspoken critic   
   >|of Einstein's light quantum (prior to 1924), that he   
   >|discouraged Dirac's work on the relativistic electron theory   
   >|(telling him, incorrectly, that Klein and Gordon had already   
   >|succeeded), that he opposed Pauli's introduction of the   
   >|neutrino. that he ridiculed Yukawa's theory of the meson, and   
   >|that he disparaged Feynman's approach to quantum electrodynamics.   
   >|   
   >footnote on page 23 in "Introduction to Elementary Particles" (1987)   
   >- David Griffiths (David J. Griffiths)   
   >   
   >  And when Dirac met Feynman, the first thing he said (as I remember   
   >  having read somewhere) was, "I have an equation; what do you have?".   
   >   
      
   Great line. I'll add it to my collection of quotes.   
      
   I like this one:   
      
   Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal.   
   Everything else is poetry, imagination.   
   - Max Planck   
      
      
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