Re: A quote from ?

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>]

I think that is right. Bartlett's even refers the reader to Shakespeare
from the Haldane quote.

Hugh

> But I think he is paraphrasing and expanding on Bill Shakespeare:
>
> "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of
> in your philosophy."
> -Hamlet
>
> Bob Sciamanda
> Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (ret)
> trebor@velocity.net
> http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>
> To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
> Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 11:03 PM
> Subject: Re: A quote from ?
>
>
> > John is right, I think. According to Bartlett's Sixteenth Edition, the
> > entire quote is
> >
> > "Now my suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we
> suppose,
> > but queerer than we can suppose...I suspect that there are more things
> in
> > heaven and earth than are dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the
> reason
> > why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming."
> >
> > The quote is taken from his work "Possible Worlds," from 1927
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Tom McCarthy wrote:
> > >
> > > >     Does anyone know who said the line that, ... nature is stranger
> than we
> > > > can imagine."  Or something to this effect.  And what the exact
> wording to
> > > > this line is?  Thanks
> > >
> > > I always find that questions like this make for interesting exercises
> in
> > > searching the web and sorting fact from fantasy.  I confess that I did
> not
> > > know (and, perhaps, still do not know!) the answer to this question,
> but
> > > because I also like the quote, I was interested enough to spend 10
> minutes
> > > on the web.  Here's what I turned up:
> > >
> > > Most people either attribute the quote to "someone," "unknown," or
> simply
> > > appropriate it as their own.  Many attribute it to Arthur C. Clarke,
> some
> > > calling it "Clarke's Law."  Some attribute it to Isaac Asimov.  Several
> > > quote it as a characterization of the revelations of scripture.
> > >
> > > However, the most authoritative sounding sources consistently attribute
> it
> > > to J.B.S Haldane, an early twentieth century British evolutionary
> > > biologist and biochemist, who may have actually said, "the [universe?]
> is
> > > not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose."
> > >
> > > John
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> > Hugh Haskell
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> >
> > Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because
> they
> > have to..
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Hugh Haskell
<mailto://hhaskell@mindspring.com>

Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because they
have to..
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