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Doing Away with Science

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Discrete Thoughts

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The views I am about to present are strictly my own. I rather fear that many of my colleagues and friends in the scientific community will strongly disagree both with my sentiments and with my conclusions.

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  1. I may add that there is some inexplicable tendency to equate advanced with graduate. I should like therefore to mention that probably the most advanced, certainly the second most advanced, course I taught during my 22 years at Cornell was an honors seminar for a small group of upperclassmen.

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Kac, M., Rota, GC., Schwartz, J.T. (1986). Doing Away with Science. In: Discrete Thoughts. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6667-4_25

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