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To: Bill who wrote (100450)	4/6/2005 5:54:04 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Therein lies the rub. Many doers don't bother with the book work. It is a kind of hubris that is fueled by an initial success in a field. Many of the problems companies have hired people like me to solve are the result of too much doing without enough theoretical justification or understanding that could have come from some reading. I think it's laziness. You have referred to cubicles more than once. You may be thinking that all intellectuals live and work in cubicles which may reveal a sample bias of yours. Nothing could be further from the truth in reality. The greatest thinkers are also experimental empiricists. Stephen Hawking shows that great minds don't have to be able to run the experiments themselves, but can interpret the results nonetheless. He may have never actually been able to look through a telescope as I have, but I will defer to him on his astronomical knowledge because he is both versed on previous experiments and the current data. Does looking through a telescope more often than Hawking make me a great astronomer? You won't hear me say that. Sure I have some opinions based upon first hand observation and even disagree with Hawking on some matters. I wouldn't expect anyone to believe either of us without the data though. This type of data is too voluminous to be gathered by one person.