From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 16:16:36 MST
Recently visited the Unisci site for the first time in a few months and
found this;
http://www.unisci.com/
>It is with sadness that we inform you of the unexpected death of Don
>Radler, founder and editor of UniSci News. With the loss of Don, UniSci
>News will no longer be published.
>We have always appreciated our loyal readership. The family and staff are
>also grateful for your many kind messages of support and sympathy.
This is an awful pity. I found this site an excellent source of science
news. It was one of the main news sites I used over several years.
There's also a very profound item written by Mr. Radler titled "Why
Science". I remember reading this when I began to reform my
philisophical/personal opinions back in the late 90's, and it stayed with
me ever since.
>This makes science the one human activity that seeks knowledge in an
>organized way. It's not the knowledge that's organized, it's the seeking.
>Science doesn't guess, doesn't hope, doesn't wish, doesn't trust, doesn't
>believe.
>Science seeks.
>It's the search that makes science so powerful and so exciting. Science
>does add to our store of knowledge, but some of the knowledge it adds
>turns out to hurt more than it helps. Science does lead to new products,
>some of which prove not to be so good, either. It's the seeking that makes
>science what it is.
>Seeking is a uniquely humble human experience. It doesn't say I know, it
>says I need to find out. It doesn't declare one thing better than another,
>it merely describes each thing as it finds it. It doesn't tell anyone how
>to do anything, it merely discovers how nature does things.
>Humble, nonjudgmental, nondirective. What other human enterprise has this
>cluster of attributes, this quiet dignity?
So long Mr. Radler, and thanks.
James....
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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