The Oil Drum | Open Thread 2

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DIYer on July 19, 2006 - 5:38pm

"No-one believes the results of a simulation, except the guy who wrote the simulation; everyone believes emperical data, except the guy who took the data."

I cannot remember where I first heard that. ...

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Don Sailorman on July 21, 2006 - 6:31am

I think this is an update of something Aristotle said in regard to the limitations of both the deductive and empirical methods.

He was one very smart dude.

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