George Bernard Shaw is supposed to have said "Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." (Though one should be suspicious of such attributions: it's a relIable principle that if an adage sounds remotely Shavian, then regardless of who actually came up with it, sooner or later somebody will attribute it to Shaw.) Jim Propp On Thursday, August 28, 2014, Marc LeBrun <mlb@well.com> wrote:
Discussing what's considered prizeworthy, the politics, the dramas just distracts from the truth that the whole concept of such prizes is bogus.
Pray tell, what problem does awarding them solve?
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