Ornithology in a sentence as a noun

Learning to write good code with php looks to me like learning ornithology with Angry Birds

This reminds me of a quote by Richard Feynman:Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds

However the ornithology community does not say "great, they're all ducks, maybe with separate subspecies".

Or, as usually attributed to Feynman,"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds"

Your reference to Feynman, however, reminded me of this classic qip: Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Birdsongs are actually copywritable music, and since they all sound fairly similar it's certainly possible that the software confused his recording with something from the Cornell lab of ornithology, which licenses their bird recordings to Hollywood, toy makers, musicians, etc.

Ornithology definitions

noun

the branch of zoology that studies birds