Amateur Radio In The Print Media! No Matter How Obscure!

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Here's an FYI, an interesting backfield reference to amateur radio, that I came across while perusing The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell, as authored by Luca Turin. This book is first and foremost a volume about chemistry, molecular structure and how we and the other animals can detect them with our schnozzes. Anyway, here's the quote:

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Physics is unusual in that people either do theory or experiment, seldom both. Experimentalists laugh at the armchair generals who send them on fruitless missions or declare impossible something which turns out to be easy. Conversely, theorists frequently deride the glorified radio hams who, when faced with a brilliant idea, have the audacity to ask whether it is worth spending years testing it. Mostly, though, they can't live without each other.

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The Secret of Scent. Harper Perennial copyright 2006 by Luca Turin.
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ISBN: 978-0-06-113384-8 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-06-113384-1 (pbk.)
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I got my copy at the Barnes & Noble (FREE PLUG!) at the Colonie Center in Albany, New York. Easy to find in the science section.
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