[Ads-l] Eureka/ That's odd

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Aug 25 16:34:57 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Peter Morris <
peter_morris_1 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new =
> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ."
>

It doesn't seem to be anything that Asimov would say, in my opinion. It's
too trivial an observation. But...

Youneverknow. Nobody's perfect.


-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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