Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:50:30 +1000
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At 12:47 AM 11/09/96 -0400, SpkEnglish@aol.com wrote:
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>When the French naturalist Lamarck announced that after extensive research,
>he discovered that after ten generations mice whose tails had been amputated
>still gave birth to mice with tails, one journalist commented: Any damned
>fool could have told him that in advance. The more we worship the kackamamie
>god of research, the more we lose our valuable instincts for common sense,
>creativity and self-empowerment.
Great one :)
And I'll add...I think this is attributed to Jim Barksdale of Netscape.
It goes.something like...." There are those who plan bridges based on the
number of people swimming across the river....we are not in that league"
cheers.../bala
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