While reading up on a few of my friends blogs I remembered that I too have a blog which has been ruefully neglected. I logged in for the first time since February and found this stashed in my edits pile:
"...Scientists themselves, as well as the nonscientific public, tend to lose sight of the fact that science is a human enterprise. The results are supposed to have objective validity, but they are obtained by very human activities which are not without their own interest and importance."
A quote from F. A. Cotton, in "Fluxionality in Organometallics and Metal Carbonyls," Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (1975) vol. 100 pp. 29-41.
Forget for now that Cotton was a bit crusty, what he says has some truth. This blog does mean something, to someone. Even if that someone is just me, that should be enough.
I will start posting again.
Later.
