--- On Wed 03/23, Jed Rothwell < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> T. H. Huxley quote: > I have said that the man of science is the sworn interpreter of > nature inthe high court of reason. But of what avail is his honest > speech, if ignorance is the assessor of the judge, and prejudice > the foreman of the jury? I hardly know of a great physical truth, > whose universal reception has not been preceded by an epoch in > which most estimable persons have maintained that the > phenomena investigated were directly dependent on the Divine > Will, and that the attempt to investigate them was not only futile, > but blasphemous. And there is wonderful tenacity of life about this > sort of opposition to physical science. Crushed and maimed in > every battle, it yet seems never to be slain; and after a hundred > defeats it is at this day as rampant, though happily not so > mischievous, as in the time of Galileo. > - Lecture at Royal Institution, 10 February 1860 We live in a coarse and less eloquent age. Let me provide a more prosaic and contemporary translation of the above: "The main and essential product of the human race is bullshit." M. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
