From: Ken Kittlitz (ken@audesi.com)
Date: Fri Jan 08 1999 - 12:48:50 MST
At 12:58 PM 1/8/99 -0600, Billy Brown wrote:
>If we condemn Einstein because he failed to see the fallacies of the
>mainstream of thought in a field he did not even practice, we are expecting
>perfection. We might as well condemn all ancient Athenians who didn't rail
>against slavery, or all medieval scholars who failed to fight for women's
>rights.
What I, and perhaps some of the other posters, object to is not that
Einstein was partly a prisoner of the memes of his time (we all are), but
that he attempted to affect society by pontificating on a subject that, as
you say, "...he did not even practice". I suspect Einstein would have
savaged a physics paper written by someone as ill-informed about that
subject as he apparently was about economics, and rightly so. Einstein's
brilliance as a physicist does not give his opinions in other areas any
special currency.
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Ken Kittlitz http://www.wendigo.com
AudeSi Technologies Inc.
http://www.audesi.com
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