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- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -10/+89Poontang > Science. Doesn't surprise me.
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41Imagine the wife would start bitching if you spent all your time in your lab... not really condusive to the inventing process. That is why you need to have a fellow scientist wife who works in another field.... least then you are both busy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32But back then, in the good old days, you could just tell the wife to STFU and go back to work.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -9/+36I stated the same thing back in the why American students are failing science Digg yesterday. American culture promotes sex and violence, while science is considered the domain of losers "who can't get any," Asian kids, and evil madmen who plot world domination.
Americans shouldn't look for "getting a life," they should look to lose their "life" and do something productive! Maybe even raise their kids properly, not just work seven days a week for some crooked CEO earning more than all his employees combined!
The Japanese however, they're on the other extreme. They're the ones that need to relax! - Spybot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25by lab you mean basement, right? where most of us go to what is left of our habitat after marriage
- itsallgeektome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I'm definitely most productive when my wife isn't around. It's not that she's distracting or anything like that. It's just that when she's around I tend to want to spend time with her rather than do programming work. (Go figure).
Fortunately she has her own pet projects just as I do, so we make it so that we have time together and seperate "me time". It can be done, you just need to work it out with your significant other. - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23It's the Yoko Ono syndrome.
- philomatic, on 02/08/2009, -5/+22Don't make me pull out the 'Women = Evil' proof
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Life is about more than what we know. Hard lesson to learn; they don't actually teach it in school.
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -10/+25"MIT just never stops."
That's a bad thing? Being surrounded by smart people who love what they do sounds like heaven to me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Yep, it's absolutely true. When I don't have a girlfriend I am more productive. With a girlfriend, I get yelled at spending all my time programming. I was thinking about going to MIT but then I heard if you goto MIT you LIVE only MIT. After class your in clubs and always working on projects. MIT just never stops.
- tharealmegaman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14This wasn't true for Edison. He even married twice.
- recipher, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19They forgot one thing.
Marriage is bad for Scientists... and sex. - Alcibiades, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Let's not forget the fact that when a scientist has "run out of ideas," he tends to view the prospect of settling down more favorably. I.e., the causation may flow the other way: When progress slows on the professional front, one takes on greater responsibilities in the personal-relationship sphere.
Relatedly: When married, one can of course choose to spend time with the wife or at the lab. There's nothing essential about marriage that makes it a drag on one's intellectual pursuits.
Correlation and Causation - haxx4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Marriage wasn't bad for Marie Curie. Her husband and her worked nonstop for years and became radioactive together.
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I haven't RTFA, but it seems pretty obvious that one of the reasons men are driven to achieve is so they can attract the most desirable woman. When they get married, that means they think they have found the best they are going to get, so they have one fewer reason to be driven to succeed. All of this is happening on a subconscious level of course... nobody gets into science for the chicks. Only men who are driven to amass wealth are following this reproductive strategy consciously.
Look at Tiger Woods, he was the world's #1 golfer until he got that supermodel vagina. - PayneX, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17So basically, women are bad for science?
- PercyKittenz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Marriage did greatly contribute to the scientist, Trin Tragula, inventing the incredible Total Perspective Vortex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13...scientist's dont invent.. they research..
- Nitro2985, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Now I have excuse for not dating besides not wanting to.
- Silencer7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"Marie, honey! You're positively glowing! Does this mean we're going to have a baby?"
"Um...no, Pierre, it's all the ***** radium." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8asimov is a sci fi writer, he never actually invented a damn thing. he could work entirely from home, and stop at anytime he wanted to.
completely different to having to actually conduct experienments and be in a lab - ILL_Robinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is true of any career that requires/receives a high level of commitment. Unless the partner of the individual is either involved with their own studies or work, or is highly independent, the marriage will suffer from a lack of attention -- where the partner will feel very secondary in light of his/her partner's career.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9[quote]who gets married nowadays anyway?[/quote]
Hollywood celebrities and gay people? - Voide, on 10/12/2007, -12/+17...Agreed. Point well stated.
- spliznork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress.
The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship.
The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there.
The engineer said, "I like both."
"Both?"
Engineer: "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the lab and get some work done!
--- Funny because it's true. Google for "engineer" "mistress" "wife" to browse the many forms of this joke. - newyvillager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the same applies to artists. children and marriage refocus all your enegries and inspirations. look at your favorite bands... im sure youll find that there is a connection
- BasouKazuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We all die a little when we get married.
- paperface, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6didn't understand it? why, because she was a woman? mileva marić was a mathematician, and many believe that she contributed greatly to einstein's early works.
- mehip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Mmmmmm. So what?
I am have a PHD in Solid State Physics. Prior to getting married I published several trade papers as well as developed some pretty gnarly (at the time) technology for my employer. I was also gaining weight and getting bored. My wife is a Chemical Engineer and by far my intellectual superior. Together, we are active, have run a pair of half-marathons, have a great 3 month old baby boy, and are generally happier.
We DO NOT multitask like this poor confused couple when we are at home; work stays at work and the home life is the most import thing in the world to us.
These people need to get a clue. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This article is plagiarised from:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2006_05_26/scientific_success_what_s_love_got_to_do_with_it
With no attribution, except the misspelt link to "Sciencecarriers.com" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Too bad your genes will not be passed on. Is that not reason enough for you?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Eistein actually got better with marriage. In fact, some people said his wife helped write his papers.
- MonaLisa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There are exceptions. If you are a genius, then you don't have to devote as much time to your work to produce results, and still have a life. Einstein, Feynman, etc. All of the exceptionally brilliant professors I have had a life outside of their work. Those of us that are merely just above average have a harder time in the academic game, and have to work a lot harder and make choices about having a social life or working 80+ hours a week.
- swax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Total Perspective Vortex - so awesome. Thanks for bringing this up, I've forgotten about it for so long.
- Phssthpok, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6[This wasn't true for Edison. He even married twice.]
Of course he didn't do any of the work. He had assistants that worked for him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison - Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I suppose if, like Durrok said, you had a scientist wife that works in a different field that would clear things up, but it could also be cool to work in the same field as well.
- dannylewis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5As we learned from Futurama, all civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex.
- Toshibi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Oh yeah...you've never had a girlfriend....
Your time is "their" time. Their time is their time. Your money is their money. Their money is their money. If you don't work your ass off you're "a lazy bum". If you do work your ass off you're "not spending any time with them". Forget that whole mating ritual junk....women monopolize all of your resources to the point that you might as well forget about who you are because from the point you enter into the relationship you're her bitch and what you want no longer matters. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Isn't passing on your genes the whole point in life, from the scientific sense? It's what our ancestors did and what animals do. The only difference is we live in a society that frowns upon killing a rival for a woman, and we have brains that allow us to be distracted with other things.
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Columbus was a great scientist, then.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Enter the scientist priesthood...
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Marriage Is Bad For Scientists: They Stop Inventing.
That is the stupiest thing I ever heard... - sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just do your scientific research by Amsterdam, plenty of "wives" there.
- Neutralino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, there is still much debate about her involvement, but at the very least she would have had no difficulty following Einstein's work, since she herself was a talented mathematician and the Lorentz transformations aren't particularly complicated mathematically, even if she was just a "sounding board" as some claim.
- smatzko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think we should equate productivity with happiness and satisfaction. It seems everyone is assuming that these scientists are wimpy, henpecked men being forced out of doing what they love. It's possible that they had thrown themselves into their careers to keep them from being lonely. Once they got married, they settled into more balanced, happy lifestyles.
- Dribblemaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Fortunately she has her own pet projects just as I do, so we make it so that we have time together and separate "me time". It can be done, you just need to work it out with your significant other."
Hats off to you for making it work... but sometimes your significant other has no pet projects / hobbies except you. Then there just is no "me time"... - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its not that pooontang > science - you dont need marriage (and preferably ARENT married) to get poontang!
Its, as we all know, that women (and later kids) insist on having your time, its just their way.
Dont fret, however - if you can find the right mate, you will actually be happier overall, which is much more important then being uber-productive, which gets old. - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, it's a sausage fest inhere.
@ Confluence: A simple yes will do man - CountOlaf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Only scientists?
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