Edgar,
Read several thorough biographies, not just scientific biographies, and you'll
see that my comments are not criticisms. They are descriptions, and noted and
recorded by others.
Get your info from several sources, and don't just make inferences from photos
of the man posing with saints.
I don't minimize the fellow's work. I only claim with the biographers that to
put him on a pedestal is a mistake, and harmful, because he was inept in most
things that his one-trick pony fixation could not support.
He was not the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He was one great
scientist who contributed a lot to his field of study. Hero worship is really
beyond the pale, when the man was not even a hero.
I see that you mouth the same uninformed blind-sighted orthodox praise, and
finger the same sepia photos of the rest of that ilk.
It's nostalgia for a fiction. Like the faithful fans of John Lennon who stroke
their rosaries of Nostalgia beads! Sickeningly one- dimensional people.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Your criticism of Einstein is entirely unfair and uninformed. Not only was he
> the greatest scientist of the 20th century but a great humanitarian,
> philosopher and very spiritual person as well.
>
> One wonders where all the personal venom of your attacks are coming from.
>
> Here for example is a photo of Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore the great
> Indian poet and philosopher together.....
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