“Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?”
I’m quite confused by this. Could you explain what your intended meaning is with this? It seems that the claim here is that spending a month to learn something is better than spending a day to learn something, which strikes me as very odd. Is there an implication here that working in a laboratory gives a person a better/deeper understanding, and therefore is better to the more light/superficial understanding from a library?
Hi Joseph, that quote is meant to be facetious. The scientist who originally said the quote was trying to encourage the opposite to his students—that researching before experimenting can save them time.
I’m quite confused by this. Could you explain what your intended meaning is with this? It seems that the claim here is that spending a month to learn something is better than spending a day to learn something, which strikes me as very odd. Is there an implication here that working in a laboratory gives a person a better/deeper understanding, and therefore is better to the more light/superficial understanding from a library?
Hi Joseph, that quote is meant to be facetious. The scientist who originally said the quote was trying to encourage the opposite to his students—that researching before experimenting can save them time.