[DoctorBeaver]

Isn't a molecule a small mole?  []

[RD]

Yeah, and it was Descartes who coined it - the greatest original thinker EVER, and he wasn't even a scientist but a philosopher [].

A "freelance philosopher" such as yourself should know that the predecessor of modern science was "natural philosophy"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy 

[rosalind dna]

Isn't a molecule a small mole?  []

LOL LOL LOL LOL

[blakestyger]

A "freelance philosopher" such as yourself should know that the predecessor of modern science was "natural philosophy"...

Surely - but what I intended was that he was more interested in the 'mind' bit and the abstract ideas of mathematics rather than the deterministic/material stuff like  mucking about with apparatus. Although he did fiddle with compasses and hydrostatics and was interested in medicine and the prolonging of life as well as dissecting and vivisecting animals. On reflection he was probably more 'scientific' in the modern sense than is generally thought as he is remembered mostly for the epistemological - "What can I know?" - stuff.