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Re: JSH: How can they care?

Subject: Re: JSH: How can they care?
From: Dement
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:11:50 EDT
Newsgroups: sci.math
> 
> porky_pig_jr@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > So what would the opposite of  "If I have seen
> farther than others, it
> > is because I was standing on the shoulders of
> giants."?
> >
> One of my all-time favorite .sig lines is:
> >
> ``If I have not seen as farther as other men, it is
> because midgets
> are standing on my shoulders.''
> >
> I would love to know where this came from.
> 

Don't know, but it reminds me of an application of Niels Bohr's famous quote: 
(in German)

"Das Gegenteil einer richtigen Behauptung ist eine falsche Behauptung, aber das 
Gegenteil einer tiefen Wahrheit kann wieder eine tiefe Wahrheit sein."

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement, but the opposite of 
a deep truth can again be a deep truth."

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