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  1. Newsgroups: soc.history
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: [ACLU] Guardian of Liberty: American Civil Liberties Union
  5. In-Reply-To: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:42:23 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Nov20085827@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <1992Nov18.192815.27567@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
  11.     <1992Nov19.070028.27622@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  12.     <1992Nov19.161920.27072@kadsma.kodak.com>
  13.     <1992Nov20.054223.23623@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  14. Distribution: usa
  15. Date: 20 Nov 92 08:58:27
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  18. Not only school children but all scientists must accept almost all
  19. science on authority.  Anyone who wanted to check out everything
  20. himself before basing further work on it would never get around
  21. to doing any scientific work of his own.
  22. --
  23. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  25. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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