From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Mon Dec 25 2000 - 18:34:54 MST
> Spike Jones wrote: > So Newton and Galileo, the great theorist and the
> great observer...
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote: Let's not forget Einstein, who's in a class
> with Newton, Galileo, and Darwin for sheer brilliance, and who also
> established the popular romance
> of science that dominated the twentieth century.
I left off Einstein because relativity (the general relativity anyway)
is beyond the reach of the masses. I do like your argument about
popular romance however. Einstein's name was used as a synonym
for genius, much more that the trinity I named. {8-] spike
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