Formerly MRA #211 - High Precision Racing
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."
--Thomas Jefferson
This is what comes to mind with Dirk for me.
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The kid with the teardrops is definitely gonna pay for them. I hear the hard-core prison gangsters don't take kindly to pretenders.
Carl was actually a pretty cool guy. I chatted with him a few times at meetings when I was a grad student, and he was always very approachable and encouraging. Watching "Cosmos" when I was in high school cemented my decision to go into astrophysics. I'm currently re-reading his last book "The Demon Haunted World". We lost a great communicator of science when he died. In our age of specialization, Carl had a breathtaking breadth of knowledge. The world could use more people like him and fewer of the idiots like those about whom this topic started.
Formerly MRA #211 - High Precision Racing
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."
--Thomas Jefferson