RE: "strangeness" quote

["Donald E. Simanek" <dsimanek@eagle.lhup.edu>]

My science quote file has this:

My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we
suppose, but queerer than we _can_ suppose.
 
        - John Burden Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964) English
   geneticist. 

It's highly likely that this idea was bouncing around at the time, and can
be attributed to a number of famous folks who repeated it. The not-so
famous folks who repeat these things never get any notice. 

One of these days I must get the entire file up on my web page. 

	-- Donald

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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, SR. MARGARET CLARKE wrote:

> All right, I'll bite...even if it's only to give the guys the gratification 
> of showing me to be wrong:
>
> The actual quotation:
>
> "The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we can 
> imagine."
> (always good for an adolescent classroom snicker)
>
> and I believe it is Arthur Stanley Eddington.
>  ----------
> From: JON GREENBERG
> To: phys-l
> Subject: "strangeness" quote
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 1997 4:52PM
>
> Can someone please tell me the exact wording and
> source of a quotation that was something like:
>
> The Universe is not only stranger than we had
> imagined. It is even stranger than we can imagine.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jon Greenberg
> jon@ait.net