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>ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS happens to be the motto of Sheffield University Medical
>School, from which I qualified. For those who have not come across it, it is
>a quotation from a very early medic (?greek)
er .. I left school (and clasics) at 14 ... but isn't it latin?
>and means something along the
>lines of the art is long but life is short, i.e. you'll always learn
>something new.
I thought the implication was that,if it *wasn't* Art (let's not argue
about definitions..) , it probably was merely transient...and therefore
not terribly important. Is science "ars" or "vita" ?
Mary
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