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Posted by jfleck on 29 August 2012, 8:46 am

From the New York Times’ obituary of the great science journalist Malcolm Browne:

“After a time, a news writer may begin to sense a kind of sameness in most of the events that pass as news,” he wrote. “When that happens a lucky few of us discover that in science, almost alone among human endeavors, there is always something new under the sun.”

via David Appell’s nice remembrance

 

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