Re: Encouraging phys-l contributions

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

        Ahh, yes.  The trouble with stereotypes (as opposed to monotypes?)
is that one never knows which stereotype to use.  Now, in "Taming of the
Shrew", as I recall...
                                Regards,
                                        Jack

Adam was by constitution and proclivity a scientist; I was the same, and
we loved to call ourselves by that great name...Our first memorable
scientific discovery was the law that water and like fluids run downhill,
not up.
                          Mark Twain, <Extract from Eve's Autobiography>

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Leigh Palmer wrote:

> Please don't stereotype us, Margaret. This particular interchange
> discourages at least one person of my sex. I spend a fair amount
> of my time trying to deflate the unjustified hubris of physicists,
> and I have taken on excessive claims by those of both sexes in
> the past.
>
> Leigh