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Scientists don't bet much. We are supposed to deal in quantifiable levels of certainty and in statements that can be backed up with experiments and observations. Bets are simple assertions that you think you are right and that you believe what you are saying enough to risk something valuable if you're wrong. There is nothing scientific about a bet at all; in fact, it is almost the opposite of science.
— Aug 31, 2021 04:20PM
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I like planets, but I didn't care enough about Pluto to get up at 4:30 a.m. For me that vote had nothing to do with the ninth planet, it was all about the tenth. I had discovered it, a ball of ice and rock slightly larger than Pluto circling the sun every 580 years. I had been scanning the skies night after night looking for such a thing for most of a decade, and then, one morning, there it finally was.
— Aug 31, 2021 04:03PM
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