Mersenne Digest wrote: > > Mersenne Digest Sunday, December 19 1999 Volume 01 : Number 672 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:33:15 EST > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unrelated, but cool, poem (not by me): > Nature and nature's laws lay hidden from sight. > God said, "Let Newton be!", and all was light. > It did not last; the devil, saying "Ho! > Let Einstein be!", restored the status quo. > At last I can solve a Mathematical problem for this list LOL The first two lines are by Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 The last two lines are by Sir John Squire 1888 - 1958 A trivial point. Squire's word was <howling> not <saying>; Pope had <hid in night>. For that matter my vote for Person of the Century is for Albert Einstein. His paper of 1905 changed all the century. FDR, Winston Churchill and other popular luminaries were men of the nineteenth century. Time magazine, please copy Happy Holidays David
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