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#1 2 July 2010 - 08:50 PM User is online  ydoaPs 


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swansont seems to have a penchant for awesome quotes, so I think we should have a thread of swansontisms. Here are some of the ones I can think of off the top of my head:

swansont said:

One of the functions of science is to limit the scope of uncertainty contained in "for all we know," and its utility includes neither argument from incredulity nor argument from ignorance.


swansont said:

Moving at 1/35 c with respect to what? Without defining a reference, it's like asking, "What the difference between a duck?"


swansont said:

I have never understood the phenomenon of wearing one's ignorance as a badge of honor.


swansont said:

Civil discourse does not extend all the way to walking on eggshells to accommodate fragile egos.


Got any more?
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#2 2 July 2010 - 09:19 PM CharonY 


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I want a swansont bobblehead on my desk.
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#3 2 July 2010 - 09:34 PM User is online  mooeypoo 


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CharonY said:

I want a swansont bobblehead on my desk.

I want one too, if only to pretend he's always agreeing with me.
What do you think, swansont? <nod nod nod nod nod>






We should totally start selling those in our online store: http://www.bobblemak...m-bobble-head-2

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#4 2 July 2010 - 09:46 PM CharonY 


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Uhhh that is perfect.
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#5 2 July 2010 - 09:56 PM Gilded 


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#6 2 July 2010 - 10:15 PM User is online  swansont 


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Gilded said:

"Swanson, Tom Swanson. Swoon before my high tech wristwatch that shoots a violent cascade of neutrinos that will go right through you. Literally."


Before my bobblehead gets too swelled I have to point out that I don't wear a wristwatch, though I do carry one in my pocket. It's a $20 Casio. However, any neutrinos it shoots will indeed go right through you.

But by all means, carry on.
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#7 2 July 2010 - 10:19 PM Cap'n Refsmmat 


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swansont said:

Before my bobblehead gets too swelled I have to point out that I don't wear a wristwatch, though I do carry one in my pocket. It's a $20 Casio. However, any neutrinos it shoots will indeed go right through you.

But by all means, carry on.


"Swanson, Tom Swanson. Swoon before my oscillating crystals."

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#8 11 July 2010 - 08:56 PM User is online  ydoaPs 


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swansont said:

The phrasing "just a theory" should make one's word processor explode. IMO.

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swansont said:

Bald assertion doesn't go over too well, and it's especially loathsome when it's blatantly wrong. We like evidence.


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Try and differentiate yourself from the ELIZA program that ran on my Commodore PET 25 years ago. Please. You're passing the Turing test in the wrong way.

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swansont said:

The plural of "anecdote" is "anecdotes," not "evidence."

I almost forgot this one.
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#9 11 July 2010 - 11:06 PM CharonY 


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The plural of "anecdote" is "anecdotes," not "evidence."


This is one is great. I shall remember and cherish it.
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#10 11 July 2010 - 11:40 PM User is online  swansont 


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I like it and I've obviously used it, but it did not originate with me.
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#11 11 July 2010 - 11:42 PM User is online  ydoaPs 


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swansont said:

I like it and I've obviously used it, but it did not originate with me.


:o

From whence hath such verbiage come?
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#12 9 August 2010 - 12:00 AM User is online  ydoaPs 


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"If you decide to hypothetically violate a physical law, then you can do pretty much whatever you damn well please."
"Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free."-Valerie(V for Vendetta)

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#13 9 August 2010 - 12:45 AM User is online  swansont 


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View PostydoaPs, on 11 July 2010 - 11:42 PM, said:

:o


From whence hath such verbiage come?


Googling "plural of anecdote is not evidence" gives more than 14k hits. I can't remember where I first read it.
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#14 25 August 2010 - 08:43 PM DJBruce 


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View PostiNow, on 24 August 2010 - 07:34 AM, said:
I've got a proverbial hard on for some bar graphs, DJ. You'd better not disappoint. ;)


Please don't express this in the form of a bar graph.

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#15 6 February 2012 - 11:58 PM User is online  ydoaPs 


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View Postswansont, on 22 May 2011 - 04:28 PM, said:

It may ask the big questions, but it doesn't answer them. If you can find an answer, it's science.

This is a good one.
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‎"Scientism" is the pejorative those who believe in magic give to Empiricism so they can pretend making stuff up is on equal footing with Science.

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#16 7 February 2012 - 08:42 AM Tres Juicy 


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Don't anthropomorphise particles/waves

They hate that


This one made me laugh


A fencing instructor named Fisk
In duels was terribly brisk
So much that in action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Reduced his foil to a disk

Like all good science, I pose more questions than I answer

Spoiler
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#17 7 February 2012 - 08:13 PM michel123456 


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View Postswansont, on 7 February 2012 - 10:32 AM, said:

If a posted idea is contrary to accepted physics, one is within his/her right to call it rubbish.

Michel
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#18 20 February 2012 - 05:48 PM User is online  iNow 


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We should compile these into a book. :D

View Postswansont, on 20 February 2012 - 03:54 PM, said:

stating one's ignorance coupled with a declaration that, in effect, one doesn't want to be taught or contradicted — on a frikkin' science forum — is asshattery of the first order.

One of the first things you have to get used to in science is that many of the thoughts you have will be wrong.

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