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- From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: Are there imp
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:55:44
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: kepley@photon.phys.unca.edu's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:40:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.234057.24075@cs.unca.edu> kepley@photon.phys.unca.edu (Brad Kepley) writes:
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- > I wouldn't be so sure that Newton, Einstein, Plank, Bohr, Heisenberg,
- > and Pauli were above all this "puffing and strutting" and insulting
- > people on occasion.
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- Especially Newton. He was a great scientist, but also quite an
- unpleasant human being. He was quite certainly not above vicious
- priority fights; consider how he behaved in his disputes with Leibniz.
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- Pauli was also quite capable of being unkind: read Weisskopf's
- autobiographical works for some examples.
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- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
- (510) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
- austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem!
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