<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=93133.msg4091928#msg4091928">Quote from: MadPanda on 05-01-2011, 21:40:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">For another take on the same mindset, have a look at the way philosophers are discussed in Sir Pterry's Small Gods.  :-)  In amongst the murmurings about whether truth is beauty and beauty truth, one gets things like "a parabolic mirror to focus the sun's rays on a distant point makes for a wonderful practical demonstration of principle" that turn out to have, ah, fleet-shattering importance.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Ah, yes, I love the History Monks. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Monks)   And always remember Rule One: "Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man."