Re: Metabolic closure in (M,R)-systems

[Athel Cornish-Bowden <***>]

I wrote...
>     Unfortunately that is not how science advances -- it doesn't happen
> in little semi-private discussions between like-minded individuals,
> but in the public literature. People will not come to you: you have
> to expose your views to public scrutiny, even to public ridicule, by
> publishing them in publicly available journals.

To which David replied
> Ah Athel, where is your proper sense of romance?  To me, this is
> like denying inspiration to the scientific endeavor.

Well of course, the late-night discussions over a glass of beer that 
we all had as students about the Meaning of Life and so forth have a 
romantic component, but eventually one has to move away from romance. 
Inspiration first, certainly, but some solid hard work afterwards as 
well. Einstein didn't just sit back and relax after he had tried out 
his ideas about the constancy of the velocity of light on his friend 
Mr Besso (whose contribution to the history of physics, other than 
being a sounding board, remains rather obscure).

a.

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