-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/19/10 10:10 , Kevin Wright wrote: > > Me: ... > > Me: I don't care minimally Nobel prizes. The one for Peace proved to be ridiculous since a lot of years. The one for Literature is heavily influenced by politics (for instance, I've read some newspaper articles mentioning an anti-american prejudice of the literature committee). The scientific ones should be better, but in the end I don't understand the meaning of a self-referential committee who decides who's the better scientist - it's the science that decides. I mean, the Nobel Prize is a hyper-conformist thing in the field (science) that should be the most anti-conformist in the world. And I don't understand how a thing such as the Nobel can be considered as serious when the founder refused to consider Mathematics (that sounds as a science to me) because his wife betrayed him with a mathematics scientist...
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