Uniform Word Problem

Famous quotes containing the words uniform, word and/or problem:

    The maples
    Stood uniform in buckets, and the steam
    Of sap and snow rolled off the sugarhouse.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I pray for fashion’s word is out
    And prayer comes round again
    That I may seem, though I die old,
    A foolish, passionate man.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Give a scientist a problem and he will probably provide a solution; historians and sociologists, by contrast, can offer only opinions. Ask a dozen chemists the composition of an organic compound such as methane, and within a short time all twelve will have come up with the same solution of CH4. Ask, however, a dozen economists or sociologists to provide policies to reduce unemployment or the level of crime and twelve widely differing opinions are likely to be offered.
    Derek Gjertsen, British scientist, author. Science and Philosophy: Past and Present, ch. 3, Penguin (1989)