Re: pinhole science tombstones

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From: Sally Arbogast (sarbogast@hopewell.k12.va.us)
Date: Fri Dec 19 2003 - 04:40:53 PST 

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From: "Sally Arbogast" <sarbogast@hopewell.k12.va.us>
Subject: Re: pinhole science tombstones
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:40:53 -0500

  Thanks----- Original Message -----
  From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
  To: <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>
  Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:56 PM
  Subject: pinhole science tombstones

> Happy Holidays to all science teachers.
>
> Subject: science tombstones
> From: "Paul Doherty" <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:56:24 -0800
>
> Tombstones for Scientists
> (originated by John Hubisz, North Carolina State)
>
> Here lies Isaac Newton - A body at rest tends to stay at rest.
>
> Here lies Euclid - or at least his elements.
>
> Here lies Heisenberg - maybe. If we indeed know precisely where
> he was, we would not know where he is going.
>
> Here lies Fermat - There isn't room enough for a proper epitaph.
>
> Here lies Clausius - maximizing his entropy.
>
> Here lies Albert Einstein - but his rest mass keeps decreasing.
>
> Here lies Erwin Schrodinger - but without opening the casket, we can't
be
> sure he's dead.
>
> Here lies J. Willard Gibbs - undergoing a phase change.
>
> Here lies Amedeo Avogadro - damn those moles!
>
> Here lies Antoine Lavoisier - he should have stuck to Chemistry,
> but lost his head over taxes.
>
> Here lies Pierre Curie - don't worry, it's a reflected glow.
>
> Here lies Niels Bohr - now in the ground state.
>
> Here lies Irving Langmuir - no longer a Surface Chemist.
>
>
>
> Not Quite Scientists
>
> Here lies Beethoven - he's "decomposing".
>
> Here lies a lawyer and an honest man - two people are buried here.
>
>
>
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