[Taxacom] International Commission on SubatomicParticleNomenclature?

[Curtis Clark]

On 10/1/2011 4:39 PM, Peter Stevens wrote:
> 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.
That meaning hasn't gone away. A former graduate student has a partner 
who is an astronomer; evidently many astronomers still refer to anything 
that smacks of cataloging as "doing botany". When you stand on the 
shoulders of giants (in any field), one approach is to deprecate the 
work they did.

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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona