kaiser@jaws.DEC (Pete Kaiser 225-5441 HLO2-1/N10) (12/21/84)
> The best instructors teach more with the least equipment. You can learn > more about biology with the equipment in your own kitchen and a good > instructor than in the best lab with poor instruction. Resisting the impulse to respond to this with something rash, I'll just say that, other things being equal, you can learn better with better equipment. Many biologists doing serious biology require tools not found in the usual kitchen, like excellent microscopes. There is a quantum difference between the microscopes used for real biology and the kind found in kitchens (or the moral equivalent of kitchens :-); for instance, the ability to do Nomarski differential interference contrast imaging. The analogy with computers I leave as an exercise for the reader. ---Pete Kaiser%JAWS.DEC@decwrl.arpa, Kaiser%BELKER.DEC@decwrl.arpa {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-jaws!kaiser DEC, 77 Reed Road (HLO2-1/N10), Hudson MA 01749 617/568-5441