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<blockquote>Growing up in China [Yale Assistant Professor of Genetics] Jun Lu might have pursued a career in math if his father, a mathematician, hadn't advised against it.<br> | |||
His reasoning: Math can be done with little more than a pen, paper and your mind. For 2,000 years, thinkers have had those tools to contemplate the questions of mathematics. "Any questions left behind by them are probably very hard to address," Lu said.<br> | |||
But biology, his father said, capitalized on advances in technology. His son could have the chance to explore a new frontier.</blockquote> | |||
<div align=right>Arielle Levin Becker, "Weeding Out Cancer"<br> | |||
The Hartford Courant, July 12, 2009</div align=right><br> | |||
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Revision as of 23:55, 13 July 2009
Quotations
Correlation coefficients are now about as ubiquitous
and unsurprising as cockroaches in New York City.
In Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man,
Second edition, 1996, Page 286.
Second edition, 1996, Page 286.
Forsooths
Growing up in China [Yale Assistant Professor of Genetics] Jun Lu might have pursued a career in math if his father, a mathematician, hadn't advised against it.
His reasoning: Math can be done with little more than a pen, paper and your mind. For 2,000 years, thinkers have had those tools to contemplate the questions of mathematics. "Any questions left behind by them are probably very hard to address," Lu said.
But biology, his father said, capitalized on advances in technology. His son could have the chance to explore a new frontier.
Arielle Levin Becker, "Weeding Out Cancer"
The Hartford Courant, July 12, 2009
The Hartford Courant, July 12, 2009