Favourite teacher quotes. - Page 7

hectorberlioz · 09-14-2006, 10:07 PM

What a biased teacher...he obviously works for the NYTimes...

Just teasing

trolls' bane · 09-14-2006, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

What a biased teacher...he obviously works for the NYTimes...

Just teasing

No, just the Desparate Scum (the name given to the Desert Sun Newspaper by my biology teacher, by the way).

hectorberlioz · 09-14-2006, 10:23 PM

So he DOES work for a paper...aha. College ruled, or Wide?

I'm way too tired...I need to go home, and eat...haven't eaten all day.

trolls' bane · 09-14-2006, 10:31 PM

It better be college ruled!
*shudders at the thought of anything with lines bigger than college ruled lines*
*thinks that big lines are almost as bad as PE... Almost...*
*would rather be burned alive than have to be at PE for life*

hectorberlioz · 09-14-2006, 10:32 PM

I use to like PE, but these days too self-concious...

College ruled is good, wide ruled wastes so much space....

trolls' bane · 09-14-2006, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I use to like PE, but these days too self-concious...

College ruled is good, wide ruled wastes so much space....

...and time. Why waste more space? Wide ruled wastes so much Spacetime.

hectorberlioz · 09-14-2006, 10:38 PM

You're going to make a great Mathematician, TB

...highly original.

trolls' bane · 09-14-2006, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

You're going to make a great Mathematician, TB

...highly original.

Thanks! Pity all that thinking (and therefore calories burned) ended up adding more to the total entropy anyway...
As my Geometry teacher would say, "I failed the mind-reading course."

hectorberlioz · 09-14-2006, 10:54 PM

...Gosh, what's your school's name: "School for Only the Highly Scientific Intellectuals"?

...sounds prestigious.

trolls' bane · 09-14-2006, 11:08 PM

No, more like "School for A Bunch of Dumb Gangstuh Morons Who Ridicule and Persecute Those Who Choose to Rise Above the Populace by Applying Ourselves to Getting An Education and Doing Important Things for Both the Scientific Community and The Community At Large."

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-14-2006, 11:23 PM

I will here state that "Science" does not mean what either of you think it means.

Thank you for listening to this broadcast.

hectorberlioz · 09-14-2006, 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

I will here state that "Science" does not mean what either of you think it means.

Thank you for listening to this broadcast.

Gwai! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Offending the Scientific Community! *gasp*

trolls' bane · 09-14-2006, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

I will here state that "Science" does not mean what either of you think it means.

Thank you for listening to this broadcast.

What do you mean I don't know what it means? What're ya trying to say?

*glares*

hectorberlioz · 09-14-2006, 11:31 PM

Yeah, who the heck do you think you are, huh? Eh, Gwaimir Windgem?

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-14-2006, 11:39 PM

Exactly.

"Science", or "Scientific Knowledge", is, properly speaking, an absolute and certain knowledge of a thing, resulting when the thing follows necessarily from other absolutely known things. Basically, when you know the cause of the thing, when you know that it is the cause, and you know that it cannot be otherwise.

trolls' bane · 09-15-2006, 12:19 AM

I'm sorry...
WHAT!?!?

Being that that is true, then all science would then be purely "speculence," because after all, there is no certain way of knowing anything. All science is speculation anyway, but with that definition science could no longer apply as science.

Curubethion · 09-15-2006, 12:26 AM

I've got an awesome history teacher:

(referring to the superiority of the Israeli forces) "They call it the Seven Days' War because it only took Israel seven days to beat the entire Middle East...they could turn the entire Middle East into a sheet of glass. Of course, then we'd have to tap through the glass to get the oil, but oh well..."

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-15-2006, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

I'm sorry...
WHAT!?!?

Being that that is true, then all science would then be purely "speculence," because after all, there is no certain way of knowing anything. All science is speculation anyway, but with that definition science could no longer apply as science.

You are correct that what is called "science" is not properly science, but opinion (largely right opinion).

You are wrong that there is no certain way of knowing anything. Senses, and more importantly, induction.

trolls' bane · 09-15-2006, 07:10 PM

Objection! What about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? Occam's razor? Though those are limited to particular fields, they serve to illustrate that there really is no way of knowing anything with absolute certainty.

"It's turtles all the way down."

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-16-2006, 02:49 PM

You don't know that.

09-14-2006, 10:07 PM	#121
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09-14-2006, 10:23 PM	#123
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	So he DOES work for a paper...aha. College ruled, or Wide? I'm way too tired...I need to go home, and eat...haven't eaten all day. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

09-14-2006, 10:31 PM	#124
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	It better be college ruled! shudders at the thought of anything with lines bigger than college ruled lines thinks that big lines are almost as bad as PE... Almost... would rather be burned alive than have to be at PE for life __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

09-14-2006, 10:32 PM	#125
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	I use to like PE, but these days too self-concious... College ruled is good, wide ruled wastes so much space.... __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

09-14-2006, 10:38 PM	#127
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	You're going to make a great Mathematician, TB ...highly original. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

09-14-2006, 10:54 PM	#129
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	...Gosh, what's your school's name: "School for Only the Highly Scientific Intellectuals"? ...sounds prestigious. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

09-14-2006, 11:08 PM	#130
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	No, more like "School for A Bunch of Dumb Gangstuh Morons Who Ridicule and Persecute Those Who Choose to Rise Above the Populace by Applying Ourselves to Getting An Education and Doing Important Things for Both the Scientific Community and The Community At Large." __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

09-14-2006, 11:23 PM	#131
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I will here state that "Science" does not mean what either of you think it means. Thank you for listening to this broadcast. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-14-2006, 11:31 PM	#134
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	Yeah, who the heck do you think you are, huh? Eh, Gwaimir Windgem? __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

09-14-2006, 11:39 PM	#135
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Exactly. "Science", or "Scientific Knowledge", is, properly speaking, an absolute and certain knowledge of a thing, resulting when the thing follows necessarily from other absolutely known things. Basically, when you know the cause of the thing, when you know that it is the cause, and you know that it cannot be otherwise. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-15-2006, 12:19 AM	#136
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	I'm sorry... WHAT!?!? Being that that is true, then all science would then be purely "speculence," because after all, there is no certain way of knowing anything. All science is speculation anyway, but with that definition science could no longer apply as science. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

09-15-2006, 12:26 AM	#137
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I've got an awesome history teacher: (referring to the superiority of the Israeli forces) "They call it the Seven Days' War because it only took Israel seven days to beat the entire Middle East...they could turn the entire Middle East into a sheet of glass. Of course, then we'd have to tap through the glass to get the oil, but oh well..." __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

09-15-2006, 07:10 PM	#139
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Objection! What about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? Occam's razor? Though those are limited to particular fields, they serve to illustrate that there really is no way of knowing anything with absolute certainty. "It's turtles all the way down." __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

09-16-2006, 02:49 PM	#140
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	You don't know that. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

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