They don't talk about "Big Science" for nothing you know - if it were
smaller than 90% it would have become known as "Large Science"!
Tim
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>Subject: Re: the `classical language factor´
>Date: Fri, Jan 1999, 10:22 am
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>> You can also turn the argument and say, that, after all, 90% of all
>> historians still work on pre-1945 science, whereas 90% or more of all
>> science in world history has been produced after 1945
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> I am a bit baffled by one of the premises in Dr. Soderqvist’s note. “90% of
> all science” What is this measurable stuff which can even be divided into
> percentages? I didn't know a science *stuff* had been discovered.
>
> John van Wyhe
> Cambridge
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