Science and Scientists

In my personal opinion chemistry is not really science at all it is still the same as alchemy. It seemed to me they can always correctly predict and explain exactly the result of an experiment, but then only afterwards. Essentially it is the same kind of approach.

What is more I've found chemistry professors obnoxious I believe it is from the laboratory fumes' prolonged exposure affecting the mind.

Although it is so my sample is very small only a handful of people, you cannot infer any kind of conclusion at all, and understandably it would always be hard to identify and isolate each variable in an experiment. More of a personal thing actually.

In any case no-one likes chemistry that's why you're almost certain of a job.

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You don't have that problem, in mathematics it is either right, or wrong, the old story. For mathematicians I have a bit larger sample, and on the other hand strangely enough are never boring but most of them are seeming to be drunks and the more brilliant the man, usually the worse alcoholic. All the same, a breed apart, a type of one-of-a-kinds.

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"The problem with today's physicists is that they don't know enough mathematics, "Yes and the problem with today's mathematicians is that they don't know enough mathematics", grilling meat around a 'braaivleis' fire beers in hand "We should grow our own timber, "We'll have to. This is a paper factory." "Why did you choose an academic career? "It's better than working." 

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Most engineering lecturers are failed engineers, and so are most engineers. Have you noticed if you asked an engineering student he always answers "I am engineering?" 

How does one become an engineer? The main obstacle is getting allowed to university. Then you pitch up for your first class and go sit right up at the back with your accomplices and wait in excited expectation with eyes gleaming of lust for mischief. Then you are an engineer.

"In my thirty years of teaching I have always found the scum of the class rises to the top!" and so does the cream Professor!"

No wonder, the engineering lecturer's slogan "In Heaven there is no beer, that's why I drink it here!"

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An accounting student wants to gamble with other people's money and borrow and steal and get rich quick and not get his hands dirty.

If you ask a medical student what he studies he will answer "I want to be called doctor and be rich. I like to see blood and play god".  A law student will say he wants to become an advocate or an attorney and get drunk and lie all the time and get away with it.

The student council president knows exactly what he wants and it's not a degree.

A psychology student says "I don't know yet what I want to be" a philosophy student says something like "I want to be what I am. I am here to find it". An art student just wants to get laid. 

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As for physicists, I have always found as very pleasant colleagues and students, but statisticians "use statistics as a a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination".