Subject: Re: baidarka More About Paddles
From: Samson family (Bill.Samson@tesco.net)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 16:13:38 EST
>I don't remember the exact book, but it was one of
>those history of the development of quantum theory
>which made the observation that "old ideas never die,
>just the people who hold them do." The point was that
>the old guys, (yes, in science it's still mostly old
>guys) don't relinquish their cherished ideas until
>somebody is throwing dirt on top of their coffin.
>
>Wolfgang
>
Wasn't that 'The Strange Story of the Quantum' by Banesh Hofmann? A great
book by a student of Einstein's, with some difficult ideas wittily
clarified.
Bill
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