"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein
-----Original Message----- From: Brian McAndrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:59 PM To: pete Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FWk: Re: Double-stranded Economics At 5:38 PM -0800 2002/01/31, pete wrote: >Some decades ago, I took a course in celestial mechanics, which used >the beautifully elegant Newtonian formulations to develop a framework >for computing the positions and movements of bodies under gravity, Pete, Your ideas reminded me of this: When I heard the learned astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wandered off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Looked up in perfect silence at the stars. Walt Whitman -- ************************************************** * Brian McAndrews, Practicum Coordinator * * Faculty of Education, Queen's University * * Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 * * FAX:(613) 533-6596 Phone (613) 533-6000x74937* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * "Education is not the filling of a pail, * * but the lighting of a fire. * * W.B.Yeats * * * **************************************************
