On 26 Jan 2014, at 19:58, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy <multiplecit...@gmail.com
> 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.
Oh! You agree with yourself here. Nice!
Bruno
> 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
(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
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