beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy) (05/08/85)
>[From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward), Message-ID: <1517@hao.UUCP>] > >> @There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale >> returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact! >> > >I wonder of dan would be amused if we started posting quotations >from Mark Twain on religion? Like from letters from earth or >"If man continues in the direction of enlightenment, his religious >practice may, in the end, attain some semblance of human decency" >or like that. Oh my Darwin (! :-)), are we taking things *that* seriously now?!?! Lighten up, fellows. (a) It's a cute quote; and (b) it's true. Einstein had some seriously wild conjectures there, didn't he? Payed off pretty good, didn't they? It's a feature, not a bug. Repeat: It's a cute quote and it's true. So lighten up. -- --JB "The giant is awake."