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SUBMAN1
07-16-06, 03:03 PM
Here is some food for rational though:

-S

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cells/graphics/quoteleft.gif
I now appreciate how much I learn by being wrong. I can change my mind when confronted with a rational argument, without the need to have the change appear to be purely semantic or to hope it will pass unnoticed. What must it be like to be a priest, general, bureaucrat, lawyer, medicine person, or politician who is never permitted to be wrong? No wonder they learn so slowly. I am grateful to be in a profession where the realization of being wrong is equivalent to an increase in knowledge.

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cells/graphics/quoteright.gif-Melvin Cohn. Ann Rv. of Immunology 12, 2 (1994)