Re: [Paddlewise] Nobel Prize Paddling Content

From: Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:46:22 -0700
Don't forget Alfred, the original Nobel:  http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/

Where would we be without dynamite?  Hook and line is soooo slow!

[Mandatory paddling content:

"I hasten to say that my own subject is a very minor ripple compared to 
Rutherford's. It may seem rather like a cyclone when Sir John Eccles 
arrives from Australia. But in neurophysiology we have none of those vast 
tidal waves of discovery which shake the world to its foundations and which 
have such incalculable consequences for good or evil.

"Research in neurophysiology is much more like paddling a small canoe on a 
mountain river. The river which is fed by many distant springs carries you 
along all right though often in a peculiar direction. You have to paddle 
quite hard to keep afloat. And sooner or later some of your ideas are upset 
and are carried downstream like an upturned canoe."

Source: 
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1963/hodgkin-speech.html 
]

Back to my hole ... Unix my kix!

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
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