John Wolff wrote:

> Re your musing about mathematics and physics: there's quite a
> difference between those "hard" sciences and taxonomy. It has been an
> education for me ever since I discovered that hardly any two shell
> books agree on much.

* doesn't that disagreement prove that taxonomy is one of the outdoor,
historical, self-rewarding, or hard sciences, rather than one of the
indoor, experimental, Nobel-prize, or easy sciences, such as mathematics
and physics?

fred.
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