Re: Houston-area job: Physics Teacher (fwd)

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

> > I was thinking of using a quote for my physics classes. Thing is I don't 
> > know who said it. Can anyone help me out?
> >
> > 	The only thing constant is change.
> >
> > I'm not sure I quoted it correctly.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Sounds similar to one of the pre-Socratic philosophies
> (the anti-thesis being that everything is constant but
> we percieve it as changing).  Might be Zeno?  
>
> Phil
> ---------------------------

It is Heraclitus and is one of only two or three statements known 
from him to remain. The usual translation is "Nothing abides and all 
is in flux."

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