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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Why, to me, science is better than religious faith

Dan Shechtman was ridiculed back in 1982 for his discovery of quasicrystals - atoms arranged in patterns that seem to violate laws of nature. Today, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that discovery.
Posted by James Veitch at 4:09 PM
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