9th December 2014, 02:18 PM
Marc Berger Wrote:What peers, permanent in the landscape Not sure that I would want to be known for noticing that people drank water or that patterns repeat themselves. Besides it normally requires quite advanced maths to prove any of these coincidences and normaly there's more than one variable and an infinite number of unknowns and it's my experience that a lot of field archaeologists dumped maths somewhen around the age of 16 in favour of anything without maths init. Why they think that it might be the solution to their problems years later is a tale of misery. the things that happened at the fifty metre contour. prey tell
Patterns exist even in the limited data thusfar collected.
It is the remit of theorists and dreamers to propose ideas that may explain such patterns and their deeper meanings.
It is the passion of scientists and mathematicians to test these theories with data.
"You will not apply my precept," he said, shaking his head. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We know that he did not come through the door, the window, or the chimney. We also know that he could not have been concealed in the room, as there is no concealment possible. When, then, did he come?"
The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)