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On the Lighter Side => Famous Scientists, Doctors and Inventors => Topic started by: Mjhavok on 05/08/2006 03:53:49
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I wasn't exactly sure in which thread I should post this but here goes.
I love this excerpt i recently read in the Faber Book of Science edited by John Carey.
In a section discussing Arthur C. Clarke and discussing light it is written.
"So now we know that Shelly, who was right in so many things, was wrong when he wrote:
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
For the radiance of eternity is not white: it is infra-red."
Source: Arthur C. Clarke, By Space Possessed, London, Gollancz 1993.
Just thought I would share this with you all.
Steven
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Moved this from general science to probably a more appropriate place.
George
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Thanks