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Sunday, 23 July 2006 |
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Electric Universe: A Cosmology For The 21st Century
'"Credibility is currency." One day, this phrase popped into my mind, and thinking myself quite clever, I "Googled" it, hoping I might have originated it. Well, I had not. An author whose name I cannot find wrote, "Credibility is currency; it's hard to get, and easier to lose."
This statement applies to virtually every human endeavor, perhaps none more so than theoretical science - an inherently idealistic endeavor to advance human understanding. A "credible" scientist can have the whole world's ear, and nothing says "credibility" better than those three little letters PhD'.
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