{"id":820,"date":"2010-02-19T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:48:06","slug":"now-what-would-a-physicist-know-about-taxonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/820","title":{"rendered":"Now what would a physicist know about taxonomy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you&#8217;re finished, you&#8217;ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird&#8230; So let&#8217;s look at the bird and see what it&#8217;s doing &#8212; that&#8217;s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Richard Feynman:\u00a0&#8220;What is Science?&#8221;, presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966) published in\u00a0<em>The Physics Teacher<\/em> Vol. 7, issue 6 (1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you&#8217;re finished, you&#8217;ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird&#8230; So let&#8217;s look at the bird and see what it&#8217;s doing &#8212; that&#8217;s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}