Watching paint dry

Watching paint dry L. Mahadevan, Op-Ed,  The Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal , 5, 64, 2012.
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Abstract

“Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge …. The scientist, who is not content with super!cial views,
harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less…”