Zeno
09-10-2004, 11:43 PM
From The Atlantic, October 2004 issue:
[Francis Crick, with Watson, discovery DNA while doing research at Cambrige; Crick was an atheist]
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The university at which he practiced his science is filled with ancient college chapels, whose presence so irked Crick that when the Churchill College invited him to become a fellow, he agreed to do so only on condition that no chapel be built on the grounds. In 1963, when a benefactor offered to fund a chapel and Crick's fellow fellows voted to take the money, he refused to accept the argument that many at the college would appreciate a place of worship and that those who didn't were not obliged to enter it. He offered to fund a brothel on the same basis, and when that was rejected, he resigned.
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Now that stance is very worthy of admiration and one that all genuine misanthopes can fully appreciate.
Kudos to Crick. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif
-Zeno
[Francis Crick, with Watson, discovery DNA while doing research at Cambrige; Crick was an atheist]
[ QUOTE ]
The university at which he practiced his science is filled with ancient college chapels, whose presence so irked Crick that when the Churchill College invited him to become a fellow, he agreed to do so only on condition that no chapel be built on the grounds. In 1963, when a benefactor offered to fund a chapel and Crick's fellow fellows voted to take the money, he refused to accept the argument that many at the college would appreciate a place of worship and that those who didn't were not obliged to enter it. He offered to fund a brothel on the same basis, and when that was rejected, he resigned.
[/ QUOTE ]
Now that stance is very worthy of admiration and one that all genuine misanthopes can fully appreciate.
Kudos to Crick. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif
-Zeno