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Knowledge Is A Drug
Category: Neuroscience
Posted on: June 23, 2006 6:03 PM, by Coturnix
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"The reward of the young scientist is to be the first person to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience; it engenders what Thomas Huxley called the Divine Dipsomania"--Cecilia Payne
In the 1920's most scientists would have told you that our Sun is made of IRON, and burns in the sky like a big hot poker. Cecilia Payne suggested that it was made of hydrogen, and was roundly dismissed. (She was also a woman) Years later, the community realised she was right.
Posted by: Babe in the Universe | June 23, 2006 11:39 PM