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| | #3396 | | With the news that Nancy Reagan has referred to an astrologer when planning
her husband's schedule, and reports of Californians evacuating Los Angeles
on the strength of a prediction from a sixteenth-century physician and
astrologer Michel de Notredame, the image of the U.S. as a scientific and
technological nation has taking a bit of a battering lately. Sadly, such
happenings cannot be dismissed as passing fancies. They are manifestations
of a well-established "anti-science" tendency in the U.S. which, ultimately,
could threaten the country's position as a technological power. . . . The
manifest widespread desire to reject rationality and substitute a series
of quasirandom beliefs in order to understand the universe does not augur
well for a nation deeply concerned about its ability to compete with its
industrial equals. To the degree that it reflects the thinking of a
significant section of the public, this point of view encourages ignorance
of and, indeed, contempt for science and for rational methods of approaching
truth. . . . It is becoming clear that if the U.S. does not pick itself up
soon and devote some effort to educating the young effectively, its hope of
maintaining a semblance of leadership in the world may rest, paradoxically,
with a new wave of technically interested and trained immigrants who do not
suffer from the anti-science disease rampant in an apparently decaying society.
-- Physicist Tony Feinberg, in "New Scientist," May 19, 1988
| | | #3397 | | miracle: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment.
-- Webster's Dictionary
| | | #3398 | | "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone
is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be
created in the form of computer programs."
-- Joseph Weizenbaum, _Computer Power and Human Reason_
| | | #3399 | | "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
-- Norm Schryer
| | | #3400 | | "May your future be limited only by your dreams."
-- Christa McAuliffe
| | | #3401 | | "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be
coming up it."
-- Henry Allen
| | | #3402 | | "Life begins when you can spend your spare time programming instead of
watching television."
-- Cal Keegan
| | | #3403 | | Eat shit -- billions of flies can't be wrong.
| | | #3404 | | "We never make assertions, Miss Taggart," said Hugh Akston. "That is
the moral crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell -- we *show*.
We do not claim -- we *prove*."
-- Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_
| | | #3405 | | "I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and
my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes."
-- George Carlin
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