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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy)
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Subject: Get Seri^H^H^H^HHumorous
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 18:33:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 18:33:13 1985
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>[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."