On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy < [email protected]> wrote:
> GREEK PHILOSOPHERS ARE IGNORAMUSES! > I agree, all this Greek ancestor worship that I see around here is just nuts and stifles original thought . The idea that we can solve today's cutting edge scientific questions by reading what some Greek said 2500 years ago is just idiotic. > he [Einstein] reads the Greeks [...] Sophocles, Aeschylus, > They were entertainers, I sometimes watch The Simpsons but it doesn't help me understand Quantum Mechanics. > and Thucydides > He was worth reading (and so are Greek mathematicians) because he was a historian and it's only because of people like Thucydides that we know what was going on back then. > Empedocles > OK he was a philosopher. Hey, even Einstein wasn't perfect. > > From an article by Niccolo Tucci on Einstein in *The New Yorker >> <http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1947/11/22/1947_11_22_043_TNY_CARDS_000213006>* >> (Nov >> 22, 1947). >> > And Niccolo Tucci was a ignoramus on scientific matters too, I say that for 2 reasons: 1) Given that he was a writer for The New Yorker magazine in 1947 we can conclude that he was probably a English major, or worse a Political Science major. 2) In 1947 the Double Helix hadn't been discovered yet, and 96% of the very universe itself had not been discovered, they hadn't found Dark Matter or Dark Energy; even Einstein didn't know about that. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
