re science and methodology in article qk linnl im u cs utexas edu turpin cs utexas edu russell turpin writes in article c i bo cg news hawaii edu lady uhunix uhcc hawaii edu lee lady writes the difference between a nobel prize level scientist and a mediocre scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology it depends on the quality of their thinking lee lady is correct when she asserts that the difference between einstein and the average post doc physicist is the quality of their thought but what is the difference between einstein and a genius who would be a great scientist but whose great thoughts are scientifically screwy this example is probably wrong there is the case of one famous physicist telling another that he was probably wrong as i recall the quote your ideas are crazy to be sure but they are not crazy enough to be right the typical screwball is only somewhat screwy herman rubin dept of statistics purdue univ west lafayette in phone hrubin snap stat purdue edu internet bitnet purdue pur ee snap stat hrubin uucp
