Re: New science section

[Colin Walters <levanti@verbum.org>]

Amy Fong writes:
 > >--=20
 > >G. Branden Robinson              |        Psychology is really biology.
 > 
 > Psychiatry can fit in with biology but psychology's a different beast. 
 > Say for example, you're studying the dynamics of human relations and say
 > why so and so is misbehaving, is that biology?
 > 
 > >Debian GNU/Linux                 |        Biology is really chemistry.
 > 
 > A chemist dissecting a frog? Nah.... %-)
 > 
 > >branden@ecn.purdue.edu           |        Chemistry is really physics.
 > 
 > Not really... alot of aspects covered in chemistry are generally not
 > done in physics. Just doesn't really work.
 > 
 > >cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |        Physics is really math.
 > 
 > I personally think that most physicists are more interested in utilizing
 > math to develop their equations and solve things than studying math itself.
 > It's a tool for them. Take your average physics person and they're more
 > interested in being given the equation and plugging things in. e.g. I can
 > hardly picture a physicist getting excited about recurrence equations
 > themselves unless he/she can use it as a tool.

This is a common joke among university undergraduates, at least in the
parts of the United States I've been to. 

But there's more:

Math is really philosophy.

Philosophy is really psychology. 

:)

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