Trivia #10

1. Gangs! Make prisons less crowded and dangerous, and inmates would require less group protection. Gangs are a logical response to prison conditions. The same goes for the outside.
2. Happy Birthday Eugene!
Remembering 1960: "A possible explanation of the physicist's use of mathematics to formulate his laws of nature is that he is a somewhat irresponsible person. As a result, when he finds a connection between two quantities which resembles a connection well-known from mathematics, he will jump at the conclusion that the connection is that discussed in mathematics simply because he does not know of any other similar connection."
3. Happy birthday Patrick! He wrote: “May every young scientist remember -- and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.”