[sci.physics] Chemistry

mob@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Mario O. Bourgoin) (10/15/86)

If it bites and scratches, it's Biology.
If it hisses and spits, it's Chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's Physics.

--Mario O. Bourgoin

mtglass@mhuxt.UUCP (RICHARDSON) (10/17/86)

> Some chemisty and physics defintions have been floating around.
> Another:
> 
> Today, physics is about the subatomic and the supermacro, very often 
> absctractions.  Chemistry is about everything in between, which is life.


What's that old saw? "Without life there would be no chemicals."




or something like that.





surreptitiously,
R. Richardson

srp@ethz.UUCP (Scott Presnell) (10/30/86)

if it's green it's Biology
if it stinks it's Chemistry
if it doen't work it's Fiziks


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