From: Martin Hardcastle <M.Hardcastle@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: sci.astro.research
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:46:47 +0100 (BST)
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To: Dave Rusin <rusin@math.niu.edu>
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> In article <8emhht$efc$1@scorpius.star.bris.ac.uk> you write:
> >Martin Hardcastle             Department of Physics, University of Bristol
> >`Innocent light-minded men, who think that astronomy can be learnt by
> >looking at the stars without knowledge of mathematics, will become birds...'
> 
> Cute! Source?

It's Bertrand Russell's paraphrase (in the _History of Western
Philosophy_) of a bit of Plato's Timaeus.

Cheers,

Martin