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From: "Charles Nicol" <ejnicol@scifac.indstate.edu>
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> Dyson is a great thinker at times, but his statement that it is
> difficult to imagine an amateur making a contribution to physics,
> etc., is quite wrong. In fact, most comets are discovered by
> amateurs rather than professionals, just as--in his example--amateurs
> discover butterflies. (I realize my comment has little to do with
> VN.)
>
> Chaz Nicol
> Charles Nicol
> Professor of English and Humanities
> Indiana State University
> Terre Haute, IN 47809
> U.S.A.
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> "For me a work of fiction only exists insofar as it affords me
> what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss..."
> --Vladimir Nabokov
From: "Charles Nicol" <ejnicol@scifac.indstate.edu>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (20
lines) ------------------
> Dyson is a great thinker at times, but his statement that it is
> difficult to imagine an amateur making a contribution to physics,
> etc., is quite wrong. In fact, most comets are discovered by
> amateurs rather than professionals, just as--in his example--amateurs
> discover butterflies. (I realize my comment has little to do with
> VN.)
>
> Chaz Nicol
> Charles Nicol
> Professor of English and Humanities
> Indiana State University
> Terre Haute, IN 47809
> U.S.A.
> (812) 237-3152
> FAX (812) 237-3156
> chaz@indstate.edu
>
> "For me a work of fiction only exists insofar as it affords me
> what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss..."
> --Vladimir Nabokov