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...represented by articles like this one. I should be grateful if you would correct the attribution of the quotation concerning the analogy between scientific data and telephone numbers. Though I included this statement in an essay that I wrote some years ago, I cannot claim credit for its authorship. It was originally made by English Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington...
...week's end Kennedy conceded, quite lamely, that he could not "claim authorship" of the commission proposal and indeed that it had "been around for months" before his Georgetown speech. But he continued to insist that the Administration had rejected the proposal until he began prodding. That appears at best an overstatement...
According to the Book of Genesis, the universe began in a single, flashing act of creation; the divine intellect willed all into being, ex nihilo. It is not surprising that scientists have generally stayed clear of the question of ultimate authorship, of the final "uncaused cause." In years past, in fact, they held to the Aristotelian idea of a universe that was "ungenerated and indestructible," with an infinite past and an infinite future. This was known as the Steady State theory...
...never fear. Chekhov will always be in the best of hands: his own and those of audiences who can never resist his appeal for co-authorship or deny the stinging reproof of their own desolated lives...
Though it is gloomier than some previous reports, the conclusion is not brand new. What makes it weighty is its global authorship. The report ("Energy: Global Prospects 1985-2000") is the product of a 2½-year study by the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies, a group organized by MIT Professor Carroll Wilson. He assembled 35 industrial, government and academic experts from twelve oil-importing nations and three exporters: Iran, Mexico and Venezuela. They plotted likely oil demand and supply under a wide range of assumptions: high and low rates of economic growth, "vigorous" and "restrained" government conservation policies...