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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 527.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:36:58 +0000
             From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" <weinshan@cse.msu.edu>
             Subject: Query for HUMANIST on source of quotation

    Colleagues:

    I am trying to identify the source of the following quotation,
    which I recall only approximately.

            Science today is the study of the very large,
            the very small, the very fast and the very slow.

    Were I to hazard a guess, I would attribute the quote
    to Sir James Jeans. However, perusal of his books,
    such as I have in my library (together with other
    books likely to contain this quote), as well as
    searches of quotation databases and a GOOGLE search
    of the Web have turned up nothing.

    I may well be misattributing the quote to Jeans.

    Can you help?
    _______________________________________________________________
    Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cse.msu.edu
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