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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