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   Scott Dorsey to wthyde1953@gmail.com   
   Re: xkcd: Chemical Formula   
   13 Feb 26 15:16:54   
   
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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   William Hyde   wrote:   
   >My google skills are failing me, but I believe that there was at least   
   >one mid century Nobel winner in physics who went to a fundamentalist church.   
      
   Shockley certainly did.  There may have been others.  Shockley was also a   
   racist ass.  (You could argue he wasn't really a scientist but an engineer   
   though.)   
      
   It's hard being human.  You want to be a logical creature as if made in   
   God's image but it doesn't always work out that way.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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