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Paraphrasing an idea from Richard Feynman:
People should have ambitions to do something rather than to be something.

From Banging the drum for principles (A review of a new collection of Richard Feynmans letters: " Don't You Have Time to Think") via erudito
Gotta love some of Feynmen's quotes given in the Wikipedia article on him. Although it should be noted that the "Feynman Lectures on Physics" were not that accessable when reading them at the end of third year, after 3 years of physics... interesting but...

Edit: And the stuff I forgot first time around...

Out of porrige error due to forgetting to take the empty container home last night. There is enough left for about half a rosella...

I have a new watch! ( Read more... )

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An interesting discussion:
"are any of you dating other scientists? non-scientists? have a preference either way? someone in your own field, or any scientific field?"
From _scientists_, a group devoted to scientists and science enthusiasm/realities...
I will not get distracted by the religious discussion on it in a later posting...