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- From: kieran@cmatter.physics.indiana.edu (kieran)
- Subject: Re: Scientific writing (was Re: scientists who write literature)
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:25:56 GMT
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- In article <Dec.11.15.24.48.1992.2096@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
- >hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal F Lillywhite) writes:
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- >>In article <pi*r^2> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- >>Right. And this whole thing started with a report of some English
- >>prof claiming that scientists are not good at literature.
- >
- >To be fair the report was of an English prof who asked "are there any
- >scientists who write literature" (maybe it was "novels") which is
- >not at all the same thing.
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- I'm coming into this discussion a bit late, and don't have the
- prior postings available. But in my own experience, physicist have
- a better understanding of literature than people in the humanities
- understand science. I recently was at a dinner with someone who had
- written a book on Zeno's paradox. I had to explain to everyone that
- an infinite series *can* have a finite answer - to people who were
- discussing what infinite meant to different cultures.
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- As for scientists who write literature - sure there are scads!
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- Loren Eisely: One of the best writers in English IMO. Read his
- autobiography, "All the Strange Hours."
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- Jacob Bronowski" "Ascent of Man", some philosophy and a play or
- two I think.
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- Timothy Zahn: Went to write science fiction, so maybe not "real"
- literature.
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- Erwin Schroedinger: Wrote about Life, etc.
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- There are a few more SF writers....
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- Kieran Mullen
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