{"id":9871,"date":"2011-11-16T19:50:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2011-11-16T19:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T00:50:44","slug":"scientific-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/11\/scientific-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"9871\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small><br \/>\nI read this quote on a wall on <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/research\/ocean-climate-physics\">Mark Cane&#8217;s<\/a> office at LDEO (Columbia) many years ago and always wondered where it came from. He found it as an epigram in a book on &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=AwjvAAAAMAAJ&#038;q=confused#search_anchor\">Stochastic Differential Equations<\/a>&#8216; by Bernt \u00d8ksendal where it is sourced to a sign outside the mathematics reading room at <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.uit.no\/ikbViewer\/page\/ansatte\/organisasjon\/hjem?p_dimension_id=88140&#038;p_d_i=-31494&#038;p_d_c=&#038;p_d_v=88140&#038;p_d_i=-161&#038;p_d_c=&#038;p_d_v=88140&#038;p_menu=42374&#038;org_plassering=88140&#038;p_lang=2\">Troms\u00f8 University<\/a>. The actual source appears to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5vY7AAAAIAAJ&#038;q=%22confused+on%22#search_anchor\">1951 report<\/a> on an education workshop by Earl C. Kelley, a professor at Wayne University (<a href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2010\/07\/11\/confused\/\">sleuthing by QI<\/a>). <\/small><\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 9871 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.&#8221; I read this quote on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-science","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9899,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions\/9899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}