The original is commonly attributed to St Francis of Asissi.
Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hake" <rrhake@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Why Not Give References?
| In his Phys-L post of 21 Sep 2002 16:36:58-0400, Larry Cartwright
| paraphrased Reinhold Niebuhr's "serenity prayer"
| <http://www.geocities.com/everwild7/serenity.html>:
|
| SERENITY PRAYER
| Reinhold Niebuhr
|
| "God grant me the serenity
| to accept the things I cannot change,
| courage to change the things I can,
| and the wisdom to know the difference."
|
| as (please excuse the reparsing):
|
| CONFIDENCE PRAYER
| Larry Cartwright
|
| "God grant me the confidence
| to post messages without references,
| when referencing would serve no purpose;
| the patience to dig up references
| when I post messages that would benefit from them,
| and the wisdom to know the difference."
|
|
| Right on, Larry Cartwright!!
|
| Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
| 24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
| <rrhake@earthlink.net>
| <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
| <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
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