Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-07-27]: Oxford University asks the help of simple people (“simple” as scientists are complex…) for the translation of a vast collection of papyri containing texts in ancient Greek [source: web news]. If anyone can “makes science”, then what is the difference between scientists and common people?
Science today has become – as we have said many times – a tedious process of collecting data, without using the imagination that geniuses such as Newton and Einstein had. This is why anyone can become a scientist today… Even if you not know ancient Greek: all you have to do is to match the letters you see on the virtual keyboard the university’s application provides (see picture in the left)…
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