re: #203 Dark_Falcon

How so?

“Well of course. The practice of science as a career today generally demands a capacity for endless patience with … nah, make that embracing tangled bureaucracy, a tolerance for hours and hours of repeating the same mistakes expecting different results, a high threshold for acceptance of red tape and overreaching regulation, and strict adherence to the philosophy that man is his own higher power.
Not hard to figure out which party is most attractive to that demographic. Spare me the exceptions, they of course exist.
/only half sarc/”

This part in particular…

“a tolerance for hours and hours of repeating the same mistakes expecting different results,”
And

“and strict adherence to the philosophy that man is his own higher power.”

Because evidently you can’t be a scientist and a religious person at the same time.

“You know the more I look, the deeper I go, the more I see just how wonderfully complex everything is and how amazing it is that it all fits together. It just makes me that much more sure that there is a god.”

—-My dad (FDA chemist) Paraphrased to the best of my memory.