On 20 Aug 2003, Bruce Pew wrote:

Stephen Speicher wrote in message ...
A little different: Here we have two somewhat related quotes,
from Author 1 and Author 2. 10 points for each of the author's
names, 4 points for each of the publications in which the words
appeared, and two points each for the dates of publication.

Author 1:
"Everything in physical science, from the law of
gravitation to the building of bridges, from the
spectroscope to the art of navigation, would be
profoundly modified by any considerable inaccuracy in
the hypothesis that our actual space is Euclidean. The
observed truth of physical science, therefore,
constitutes overwhelming empirical evidence that this
hypothesis is very approximately correct, even if not
rigidly true."

Another 'wild' guess: Alan Guth.

And a wild one it was.

The answer is Betrand Russell, guessed correctly by Bruce Scott.

But we still need the publication and date.

--
Stephen


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