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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:48:01 -0700, John Ahlstrom
<jahl...@cisco.com> wrote in alt.atheism:

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>Therion Ware wrote:
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>> Maybe Fermi was right when he said "if they existed, they would be
>> here".
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>I think Fermi asked the question "where are they" but did not make
>the statement "they would be here".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192821474

The quotation is attributed to Fermi in *The Anthropic Cosmological
Principle* by John D.  Barrow & Frank J.  Tipler, page 578.

>Erdos answered Fermi by saying something like
>    "On Earth we call ourselves Hungarians."

Almost. The story was originally related in "The Curve of Binding
Energy," which isn't bad as DIY nuclear weapons manuals go.

 
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