Let us now praise famous men* *Ecclesiasticus XLIV, 1.

Let us now praise famous men.

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading let us now praise famous men is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. The advantages are not onl...

On the Nature of Models: Let us Now Praise Famous Men and Women, from Warren McCulloch to Candace Pert

Warren was a philosopher and scientist. As a freshman at Haverford College he told the Quaker philosopher Rufus Jones that all he wanted to know was: "What is a number that a man may know it; and a man, that he may know a number?" To this the Quaker famously replied: "Friend, thee will be busy as long as thee lives." Warren acknowledged in his last days that the prophecy had been fulfilled, and...

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How famous is a scientist? —Famous to those who know us

– Following a recent idea, to measure fame by the number of Google hits found in a search on the WWW, we study the relation between fame (Google hits) and merit (number of papers posted on an electronic archive) for a random group of scientists in condensed matter and statistical physics. Our findings show that fame and merit in science are linearly related, and that the probability distributio...

Ruminations on Ecclesiasticus.

I was not raised in the Catholic church, but I have been learning many remarkable and wonderful things from that tradition. The stress of third-year pharmacy school and the pressures of having to answer life’s big questions about the future have been weighing on me heavily, and I have found solace and a means of maintaining perspective in a daily prayer book based on the Rule of St. Benedict. A...