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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez
  3. From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
  4. Subject: Re: Richard P. Feynman
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec14.001133.12716@galois.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz
  8. Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
  9. References: <1992Dec12.013103.29167@netcom.com> <1992Dec12.023859.14810@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <Dec.13.18.15.03.1992.6526@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 00:11:33 GMT
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  13. In article <Dec.13.18.15.03.1992.6526@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
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  15. >Sorry Dale, couldn't resist.  To stay close to drifting from the
  16. subject,
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  18. Ah yes, staying close to drifting, that's usenet at it's best...
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  20. >I was wondering why physicists often feel compelled to put down engineers,
  21. >and I thought of a few reasons:
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  23. [various reasons deleted]
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  25. Here's my theory.  Physicists are sick of being teased about being
  26. nerds, so they (subconsciously) want to deflect the barbs, thinking,
  27. it's not ME who's a boring grind, I am tremendously creative and love to
  28. ponder the inner mysteries of the universe - it's HIM, that guy over
  29. there, who fits the stereotype!
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