Re: I would have been a botanist

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

> > I have a coffee mug produced by a publisher a few years back,
> > promoting one physics text or another. It says: "In science there is
> > only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting."

> > > >      The version of Rutherford's quote that I am familiar with
> > > > is "Physics is the only science - the rest is stamp collecting."

Mind you, we are celebrating the denigration of another field here.  This is
hardly appropriate for people trying to build some form of a collaborative
community on the internet.  Surely more worthy things than bigotry can be
discussed here.

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu          http://purcell.phy.nau.edu         PHYS-L list owner