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+++ fortune-mod-1.99.1/datfiles/science
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 	  into simple blood sugars after ten minutes and therefore
 	  cannot be detected in post-race tests.
 G:	  Excellent, excellent!  But I want to hear from the physicist before
-	  I decide what to do.  Physicist?  
+	  I decide what to do.  Physicist?
 Physicist: Well, first consider a spherical horse in simple harmonic motion...
 %
 "A horrible little boy came up to me and said, `You know in your book
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
 		-- Leibnitz
 %
 A pain in the ass of major dimensions.
-		-- C.A. Desoer, on the solution of non-linear circuits
+		-- C. A. Desoer, on the solution of non-linear circuits
 %
 A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
 		-- George Wald
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
 It is difficult to believe that this state of mind can be produced by the
 recognition of such facts as that unsupported stones always fall to the
 ground.
-		-- J.W.N. Sullivan
+		-- J. W. N. Sullivan
 %
 A Severe Strain on the Credulity
 	As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 		-- Steven Weinberg, "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles"
 
 Robert Millikan is generally credited with making the first really
-precise measurement of the charge on an electron and was awarded the 
+precise measurement of the charge on an electron and was awarded the
 Nobel Prize in 1923.
 %
 After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is,
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
 All the evidence concerning the universe has not yet been collected,
 so there's still hope.
 %
-All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists 
+All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists
 know it.
 		-- Richard P. Feynman
 %
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
 penis remains small (relative to body height) throughout life, while
 white children begin with a small separation but increase it during
 growth -- the rising belly button as a mark of progress.
-		-- S.J. Gould, "Racism and Recapitulation"
+		-- S. J. Gould, "Racism and Recapitulation"
 %
 And this is a table ma'am.  What in essence it consists of is a horizontal
 rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports,
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
 inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.  Most notably I have
 ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old.  Well, I
 haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected
-it.  There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between 
+it.  There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between
 prejudice and postjudice.  Prejudice is making a judgment before you have
 looked at the facts.  Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards.  Prejudice
 is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@
 		-- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"
 %
 Between infinite and short there is a big difference.
-		-- G.H. Gonnet
+		-- G. H. Gonnet
 %
 Biology grows on you.
 %
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@
 life descended from earlier forms, over vast stretches of geologic time, is
 as firmly established as Copernican cosmology.  Biologists differ only with
 respect to theories about how the process operates.
-		-- Martin Gardner, "Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life". 
+		-- Martin Gardner, "Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life".
 %
 Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
 %
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@
 	"And then he will be sane?"
 	"Then he will be perfectly sane, and a quite admirable citizen."
 	"Thank heaven for science!" said old Yacob.
-		-- H.G. Wells, "The Country of the Blind"
+		-- H. G. Wells, "The Country of the Blind"
 %
 I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
 		-- Plato
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@
 		-- Baker, Pure Math 351a
 %
 I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct.
-		-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
+		-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
 %
 "I think the sky is blue because it's a shift from black through purple
 to blue, and it has to do with where the light is.  You know, the
@@ -1120,11 +1120,11 @@
 I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called the "reindeer effect."
 I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say,
 "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect."
-		-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
+		-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
 %
 I THINK THEY SHOULD CONTINUE the policy of not giving a Nobel Prize for
 paneling.
-		-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
+		-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
 %
 I use technology in order to hate it more properly.
 		-- Nam June Paik
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@
 image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we
 forget or do not know.
 		-- Plato, Dialogs, Theateus 191
- 
+
 	[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
 	 referring to image activation and termination.]
 %
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@
 and use the word *billions*, and so on.  And then I say it would be astonishing
 to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is as
 yet no compelling evidence for it.  And then I'm asked, "Yeah, but what do you
-really think?"  I say, "I just told you what I really think."  "Yeah, but 
+really think?"  I say, "I just told you what I really think."  "Yeah, but
 what's your gut feeling?"  But I try not to think with my gut.  Really, it's
 okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
 		-- Carl Sagan
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@
 %
 If I set here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think
 I'm an engineer working on something.
-		-- S.R. McElroy
+		-- S. R. McElroy
 %
 If in any problem you find yourself doing an immense amount of work, the
 answer can be obtained by simple inspection.
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@
 	If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you
 brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-
 up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and
-repeat the sequence. 
+repeat the sequence.
 	You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to
 hit that window jamb, that door, that chair.  Get back on course and do it
 again.  How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can't find your way around
@@ -1275,10 +1275,10 @@
 %
 IN MY OPINION anyone interested in improving himself should not rule out
 becoming pure energy.
-		-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
+		-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
 %
 In Nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
-		-- R.G. Ingersoll
+		-- R. G. Ingersoll
 %
 In order to dial out, it is necessary to broaden one's dimension.
 %
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@
 for, let us say "x is a better logician than I am", and the statement "It is
 necessary that if someone is a better logician than I am then someone is a
 better logician than I am" is false because there need not have been any me.
-		-- A.N. Prior, "Time and Modality"
+		-- A. N. Prior, "Time and Modality"
 %
 It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
 %
@@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@
 %
 It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to
 mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
-		-- H.L. Mencken
+		-- H. L. Mencken
 %
 It is true that if your paperboy throws your paper into the bushes for five
 straight days it can be explained by Newton's Law of Gravity.  But it takes
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@
 		-- Phil White
 %
 It's not hard to admit errors that are [only] cosmetically wrong.
-		-- J.K. Galbraith
+		-- J. K. Galbraith
 %
 Just because they are called 'forbidden' transitions does not mean that they
 are forbidden.  They are less allowed than allowed transitions, if you see
@@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@
 to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
 		-- Albert Einstein
 %
-Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what 
+Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what
 one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.
 		-- Russell
 %
@@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@
 assumption is a necessary one and there is no real evidence opposed to it.
 Our failure to solve a problem so far does not make it insoluble.  One cannot
 logically be a determinist in physics and biology, and a mystic in psychology.
-		-- D.O. Hebb, "Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological
+		-- D. O. Hebb, "Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological
 		   Theory", 1949
 %
 More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads.  One path
@@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@
 earth, priests subordinate to the Pope and serfs to their lord.  But the
 Church soon made its peace with Galileo's cosmology.  They had no choice; the
 earth really does revolve about the sun.
-		-- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man"
+		-- S. J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man"
 %
 Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
 		-- Booth Tarkington
@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@
 to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists,
 a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also
 just stupid.
-		-- J.D. Watson, "The Double Helix"
+		-- J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"
 %
 One day this guy is finally fed up with his middle-class existence and
 decides to do something about it.  He calls up his best friend, who is a
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@
 		-- Robert Heinlein
 %
 One man's constant is another man's variable.
-		-- A.J. Perlis
+		-- A. J. Perlis
 %
 One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor...
 is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics.
@@ -1772,7 +1772,7 @@
 One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that
 sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer
 terror.
-		-- W.K. Hartmann
+		-- W. K. Hartmann
 %
 Only God can make random selections.
 %
@@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@
 %
 Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature
 cannot be fooled.
-		-- R.P. Feynman
+		-- R. P. Feynman
 %
 Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you
 lose your job.  These economic downturns are very difficult to predict,
@@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@
 %
 Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them
 over the horizon.
-		-- K.A. Arsdall
+		-- K. A. Arsdall
 %
 Space is big.  You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly
 big it is.  I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the
@@ -2207,13 +2207,13 @@
 The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.  The goal of nature
 is to build better mice.
 %
-The Greatest Mathematical Error 
+The Greatest Mathematical Error
 	The Mariner I space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral on 28
 July 1962 towards Venus.  After 13 minutes' flight a booster engine would
 give acceleration up to 25,820 mph; after 44 minutes 9,800 solar cells
 would unfold; after 80 days a computer would calculate the final course
 corrections and after 100 days the craft would cirlce the unknown planet,
-scanning the mysterious cloud in which it is bathed.  
+scanning the mysterious cloud in which it is bathed.
 	However, with an efficiency that is truly heartening, Mariner I
 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean only four minutes after takeoff.
 	Inquiries later revealed that a minus sign had been omitted from
@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@
 The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they
 are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally
 understood.  Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
-		-- John Maynard Keyes
+		-- John Maynard Keynes
 %
 "The identical is equal to itself, since it is different."
 		-- Franco Spisani
@@ -2244,7 +2244,7 @@
 The Man Who Almost Invented The Vacuum Cleaner
 	The man officially credited with inventing the vacuum cleaner is
 Hubert Cecil Booth.  However, he got the idea from a man who almost
-invented it.  
+invented it.
 	In 1901 Booth visited a London music-hall.  On the bill was an
 American inventor with his wonder machine for removing dust from carpets.
 	The machine comprised a box about one foot square with a bag on top.
@@ -2357,7 +2357,7 @@
 The spirit of Plato dies hard.  We have been unable to escape the philosophical
 tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the
 superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
-		-- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man"
+		-- S. J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man"
 %
 The startling truth finally became apparent, and it was this: Numbers
 written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not
@@ -2511,14 +2511,14 @@
 %
 There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon,
 however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable.
-Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be 
+Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be
 discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator
 on his own account.  The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is
 even highly probable.
-		-- H.L. Mencken, 1930
+		-- H. L. Mencken, 1930
 %
 	There was a mad scientist (a mad... social... scientist) who kidnapped
-three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked 
+three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked
 each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no
 can opener.
 	A month later, returning, the mad scientist went to the engineer's
@@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@
 %
 Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem
 in relation to a bigger problem.
-		-- P.D. Ouspensky
+		-- P. D. Ouspensky
 %
 Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two,
 opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.
@@ -2705,7 +2705,7 @@
 %
 We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.  The question which divides us is
 whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.  My own feeling
-is that it is not crazy enough. 
+is that it is not crazy enough.
 		-- Niels Bohr
 %
 We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his
@@ -2736,7 +2736,7 @@
 %
 We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure
 that it wasn't a fish.
-	-- Marshall McLuhan
+		-- Marshall McLuhan
 %
 We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids?
 		-- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission
@@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@
 functions).  But these assumptions do not lead to the notion, often
 uncritically embraced by strict Darwinians, that all major capacities
 of the brain must arise as direct products of natural selection.
-		-- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man"
+		-- S. J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man"
 %
 We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful
 new world.  We will see it when we believe it.
@@ -2781,7 +2781,7 @@
 to understand how evolution happens (the "theory of evolution") does not
 cast our documentation of its occurrence -- the "fact of evolution" --
 into doubt.
-		-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism", 
+		-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism",
 		   The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2.
 %
 We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
@@ -2790,7 +2790,7 @@
 %
 We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to
 brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
-		-- S.J. Gould
+		-- S. J. Gould
 %
 We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical
 problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
@@ -2806,7 +2806,7 @@
 question, "NOW what's the least popular vegetable?"
 
 Law: Once you eliminate your #1 problem, #2 gets a promotion.
-	-- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
+		-- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
 %
 Wernher von Braun settled for a V-2 when he coulda had a V-8.
 %
@@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@
 		-- R. Willard, Pure Math 430a
 %
 What is algebra, exactly?  Is it one of those three-cornered things?
-		-- J.M. Barrie
+		-- J. M. Barrie
 %
 What is mind?  No matter.  What is matter?  Never mind.
 		-- Thomas Hewitt Key, 1799-1875
@@ -3009,11 +3009,21 @@
 		-- Albert Einstein
 %
 God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
-                -- Albert Einstein
+		-- Albert Einstein
 %
 Dopeler effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they
 come at you rapidly.
-		-- Greg Oetjen of Lorton, VA in the Washington Post 
-		   "Style Invitational Report from Week 278" published 
+		-- Greg Oetjen of Lorton, VA in the Washington Post
+		   "Style Invitational Report from Week 278" published
 		   August 2, 1998
 %
+Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax
+authorities and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt, with
+someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is
+probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organise a coup
+d'etat, while at the same time minimising the cost of the phone call.
+
+A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.
+    -- John Gordon, "Alice and Bob After-Dinner Speech", Zurich Seminar,
+       April 1984
+%