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We planned this book as a Festschrift for Smitty Stevens because we
thought he might be retiring around 1974, although we knew very
well that only death or deep illness would stop Smitty from doing
science. Death came suddenly, unexpectedly - after a full day of
skiing at Vail, Colorado on the annual trip with wife Didi to the
Winter Conference on Brain Research. Smitty liked winter
conferences near ski resorts and often tried to get us other
psychophysicists to organize one. Every person is unique. Smitty
would have said it's mainly because each of us has so many genes
that two combinations just alike would be well-nigh impossible. But
most of us strive in many ways to be like others, and to abide by
the norms (some smaller number try even harder to be unlike other
people); as a result many persons seem to lose their uniqueness,
their individuality. Not Smitty. He tried neither to be like others
nor to be different. He took himself as he found himself, and
ascribed peculiarities, strengths, and weaknesses to his pioneering
Utah forebears, in whom he took much pride. His was the true and
right nonconformity. He approached each task, each problem, ready
to grapple with the facts and set them into meaningful order. And
if the answer he came up with was different from everyone else's,
well that was too bad.
We planned this book as a Festschrift for Smitty Stevens because we
thought he might be retiring around 1974, although we knew very
well that only death or deep illness would stop Smitty from doing
science. Death came suddenly, unexpectedly - after a full day of
skiing at Vail, Colorado on the annual trip with wife Didi to the
Winter Conference on Brain Research. Smitty liked winter
conferences near ski resorts and often tried to get us other
psychophysicists to organize one. Every person is unique. Smitty
would have said it's mainly because each of us has so many genes
that two combinations just alike would be well-nigh impossible. But
most of us strive in many ways to be like others, and to abide by
the norms (some smaller number try even harder to be unlike other
people); as a result many persons seem to lose their uniqueness,
their individuality. Not Smitty. He tried neither to be like others
nor to be different. He took himself as he found himself, and
ascribed peculiarities, strengths, and weaknesses to his pioneering
Utah forebears, in whom he took much pride. His was the true and
right nonconformity. He approached each task, each problem, ready
to grapple with the facts and set them into meaningful order. And
if the answer he came up with was different from everyone else's,
well that was too bad.
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