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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
"Scientists are just zealots for a different religion" sounds good, but it's not true. For every scientist who likes seeing the data come out the way he expects, there are a hundred who live for the moment when they can say "now that's interesting!" If nothing else, nobody ever won a prize for finding what he expected.
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Umm, that is actually not true. John Mather won a Nobel for designing experiments to find variations in the microwave background radiation that is the let over heat of the Universe. He found such variations with COBE satellite and won a Nobel Prize for it.
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Bill