Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays.
- Bertrand Russell
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This weeks question:
In "common parlance" we throw around chemistry, biology, physics, and all, sort of throwing off the diversity within these disciplines. Gosh, in my comps I answered (or attempted to answer) a question about how useful it was to talk about "scientists" and non-scientists.
That's the question Eugene Wallingford asks in a recent post at his blog, Knowing and Doing.
As an exercise in futility, The Daily Transcript tries to categorize disciplines of the life sciences.