[Taxacom] International Commission on SubatomicParticleNomenclature?

[Michael Heads]

?I have
always thought one could be a great botanist without knowing a single plant by
name? With all the names you have few ideas?.? (C. Baehni, the Sapotaceae specialist, in?Boissiera?11, 1965).
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Michael Heads


Wellington, New Zealand.


My papers on biogeography are at: http://tiny.cc/RiUE0


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From: Peter Stevens <peter.stevens at mobot.org>
To: Richard Zander <Richard.Zander at mobot.org>; Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com>; taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Sunday, 2 October 2011 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] International Commission on SubatomicParticleNomenclature?

I don't profess to know what Fermi really meant, but a common meaning in the 19thC was that botany was a science of names - and by implication, little else.

And since I cannot remember names, I cannot be a botanist.

P.


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Zander
Sent: Sat 10/1/2011 1:31 PM
To: Peter Stevens; Bob Morris; taxacom
Subject: RE: [Taxacom] International Commission on SubatomicParticleNomenclature?

No, no, Fermi was saying that he could not well remember scientific names and therefore could not be a botanist. A shame, but not all can be botanists.

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Richard H. Zander
Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA? 
Web sites: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/ and http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/bfnamenu.htm
Modern Evolutionary Systematics Web site: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/21EvSy.htm


-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Stevens
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 10:09 AM
To: Bob Morris; taxacom
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] International Commission on SubatomicParticleNomenclature?

This kind ofusgae persited certainly up to 10 years ago, and I presume still persists.? I picked up similar quotes in "Science", "Nature" and the "International Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science", or whatever is is called; natural history also sometimes has very negative connotations.

P.


-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Bob Morris
Sent: Sat 10/1/2011 12:25 AM
To: taxacom
Subject: [Taxacom] International Commission on Subatomic ParticleNomenclature?

'By the 1980s physicists were drowning in a sea of subatomic
particles. Every time they smashed an atom apart with powerful particle accelerators, they found scores of new particles spitting out.? It was so frustrating that J. Robert Oppenheimer declared that the Nobel Prize in Physics should go to the physicist who did \not/ discover a new particle that year. (Enrico Fermi, horrified at the proliferation of subatomic particles with Greek sounding names, said, "If I could remember the names of all these particles, I would have become a botanist.")'
Michio Kaku, "Physics of the Impossible", Doubleday, 2008., p. 
234-235, Chapter 13 ("Parallel Universes", section on String Theory

--Bob Morris
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