From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Thu Nov 25 1999 - 17:51:49 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
> >Niels Bohr, who declared that a great truth is a statement whose
> >opposite is also a great truth.
>
> It is a great truth that the earth orbits the sun. It is a great error (one
> believed in mistake for hundreds of thousands of years) that the sun orbits
> the earth (or, more strictly, that the earth does *not* orbit the sun).
Dear Damien,
I don't really regard the heliocentricity of our Solar System as a "great"
"truth" -- I find it rather trivial --a bore, actually. Recall that Sherlock
Holmes was of this opinion exactly.
On the other hand, "wave-particle duality" (Scroedinger & Heisenberg)
and "The Principle of Complementarity" (Bohr) help make life interesting,
don't you think?
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