The confidence to begin, to try, (no matter where on the path to mastery you find yourself, no matter how different you may be from anybody else) is one of the most precious gifts anyone can give you. (And one that I've always consciously aimed to give all my students.)https://twitter.com/ava/status/946120395727413248 …
There's a great article on that theme by Steven Weinberg, one of the great physicists of all time: http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/files/nature.pdf …
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uff, I moved into biology because of messiness (+fascination). Not sure I recommend the rough waters at the moment, but maybe longer timescale needed :)...
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also, this is so good: "The best antidote to the philosophy of science is a knowledge of the history of science."
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Amusing. Though Weinberg came to have a (slightly grudging) admiration for the work of Paul Feyerabend, with whom he argued after an earlier book (I think "The First Three Minutes").
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