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:In fact, great literary writers, for example, are usually not great physicists.  Physics, I hope you'd agree, is the study of physical world and that usually requires an interest and skill at conducting experiments.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:41, 16 June 2009 (EDT)

:In fact, great literary writers, for example, are usually not great physicists.  Physics, I hope you'd agree, is the study of physical world and that usually requires an interest and skill at conducting experiments.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:41, 16 June 2009 (EDT)

::The attempt to discredit Witten as a physicist here seems somewhat deceitful to me -- there can really be no question of his qualifications in physics (whatever your views on string theory).  Why is the subject of his undergraduate major important enough to mention, while is graduate specialty (physics, and under a Nobel laureate in physics at that) is not?  He's written a number of important papers outside of string theory.  Moreover, if you look through the list of Nobel laureates in physics, a good number of them have certainly done few if any experiments in their professional careers.  The assertion that physicists must be skilled experimentalists is obviously specious. --[[User:MarkGall|MarkGall]] 17:58, 16 June 2009 (EDT)

::The attempt to discredit Witten as a physicist here seems somewhat deceitful to me -- there can really be no question of his qualifications in physics (whatever your views on string theory).  Why is the subject of his undergraduate major important enough to mention, while is graduate specialty (physics, and under a Nobel laureate in physics at that) is not?  He's written a number of important papers outside of string theory.  Moreover, if you look through the list of Nobel laureates in physics, a good number of them have certainly done few if any experiments in their professional careers.  The assertion that physicists must be skilled experimentalists is obviously specious. --[[User:MarkGall|MarkGall]] 17:58, 16 June 2009 (EDT)