"Learning the names of rocks and being friends of big shots like President Reagan doesn't make somebody a "scientist."
It's what you do between the time you learn the names and bigshots learn yours that makes one a scientist.
Executive Director, National Physical Science Consortium, 2001-
President and Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 1994-2001
Adjunct Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC, 1995-2001
President and CEO, The Franklin Institute, 1991-1994
President, Reed College, 1988-91
President, Franklin and Marshall College, 1983-88
Acting President, Oberlin College, 1981-83
Visiting Administrator, Stanford University, 1981
Vice President and Provost, Oberlin College, 1975-81
Associate Dean, Oberlin College, 1973-75
Visiting Scientist, Oxford University, 1969-70
Instructor, Indiana University Geologic Field Station, Montana, 1967
Chairman, Department of Geology, Oberlin College, 1965-73
Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Oberlin College, 1962-83
If they don't understand that one swallow does make a summer, they are not birdwatchers. If they understand you, they aren't scientists.
Einstein, Popper and Feynman [actual scientists] all accepted the works of Fourier, Tyndall, Arrhenius, etc.
In fact Einstein took his Nobel right from the hand of Arrehenius.
Award Ceremony SpeechPresentation Speech by Professor S. Arrhenius, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on December 10, 1922 *
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen.
There is probably no physicist living today whose name has become so widely known as that of Albert Einstein. Most discussion centres on his theory of relativity. This pertains essentially to epistemology and has therefore been the subject of lively debate in philosophical circles. It will be no secret that the famous philosopher Bergson in Paris has challenged this theory, while other philosophers have acclaimed it wholeheartedly. The theory in question also has astrophysical implications which are being rigorously examined at the present time.blah blah, blah blah
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