Dear Dr. Fracassi,
Please allow me to join your warm message to the American colleagues. Thank
you so much for taking the incentive to express so well what I'm sure many
of us feel these days and have difficulty to find appropriate words to
convey it.
Shimon
At 4:59 14/9/01, Umberto Fracassi wrote:
>Dear Allen,
>
>> Whether expressed or merely felt in your hearts, thank you again for your
>> support. I hope colleagues will forgive this brief digression.
>
>Now it's my time to be presumptuos (wow!) and, with the certain and serene
>assumption that anybody on this forum agrees, I do imagine that, yes, we
>certainly forgive you for this brief and, in my humble opinion, needed
>digression. In fact, since this forum is a beautiful and resourceful exchange
>arena for people doing their share to understand a bit more of our planet, with
>humble and passionate attitudes, it is, first of all, directed and created by
>human beings. They are scientist, researchers, famous scholars, first-year phd
>students, but, before reaching their offices, computers and field assignments,
>they wake up as People. Scientist could be nothing, without being women and men
>first. And women and men, I am told, have got mind, passions, feelings and,
>indeed, fears and weaknesses. In front of what we have so helplessly witnessed,
>anything, absolutely anything, comes second - and by a good distance.
>Science (and anything else, for that matter) comes better when the heart is
>warmed up.
>
>And, now, with a new idea of what the world we work for looks like and with the
>understanding that a lot has to be understood anew, back to geology, our
>choice.
>
>With warmest regards to all,
>
>
>Umberto
>
>Umberto Fracassi
>
>Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
>Universitý di Firenze
>Via G. la Pira, 4
>50121 Firenze
>Italy
>http://geosciences.org/umberto
>
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