19.296 author of quotation: Sir James Jeans

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         Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:57:33 +0100
         From: Marcus Holmes <mch43_at_georgetown.edu>
         Subject: Re: 19.288 author of quotation?

This might be of help. It's a Powerpoint presentation by a scholar at
Michigan State. He attributes the quote to Sir James Jeans, a physicist.

http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan/Intelligent%20Design%20Lecture%20Notes.031902.htm

Marcus

Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 288.
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> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:51:09 +0100
> From: "Donald Weinshank" <weinshan_at_cse.msu.edu>
> >
>I recall a comment attributed to an early 20th Century physicist along the
>lines of
>
>"Science in the 20th Century is about the very large, the very small, the
>very fast and the very slow."
>
>I have done a rather exhaustive search of on-line quotation sites and a
>large number of permutations of the quote without finding a source.
>
>Can HUMANISTS point to a source for this quote?
>
>This query was originally posted as 15.527 on Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:36:58 but
>received no replies. I hope for better luck this time.
>
>Many thanks in advance.
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