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Originally Posted by Eric
Too many "maybes" ... I fully believe, however, that we are not alone in the Universe. But I agree with J. B. S. Haldane: "My own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." And I don't think that we are all that important anyway. Certainly not interesting enough to travel light years to observe. There are probably aliens out there who don't like to ask directions, and they end up here.  |
Spot on Eric - would love to have met the man. Eric and J B S Haldane... and me. Not bad company to keep. Have to say the only thing by him that I've read is his children's book My Friend Mr Leakey. But on looking him up on Wikipedia just now I came across a poem which ends
"...I know that cancer often kills,
But so do cars and sleeping pills;
And it can hurt one till one sweats,
So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.
A spot of laughter, I am sure,
Often accelerates one’s cure;
So let us patients do our bit
To help the surgeons make us fit."
I second that!
BTW did you know that Haldane died on your birthday?