[lit-ideas] Re: Einstein -Scene 2
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:35:41 -0500
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> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 11/1/2005 10:16:54 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Einstein -Scene 2
>
>
> >This caricaturization captures the type of conversation Outsider Einstein
> >would have had with his wife and the people in his circle. He had no
room
> >in his life for anything other than physics. He also thought in
pictures.
> >Allegedly he didn't like math. Anybody know if he did anything profound
> >after E=mc2?
>
> Jeeze Andy, you're like a guy after a 9 course meal asking for dessert.
Was
> Joyce a genius? He ONLY wrote 4 books really. Anyone know what he did
after
> Finnegan's Wake?
>
> > For Paul, I never said Newton wasn't a genius. My point was
> >that in the popular imagination Newton=apple and Edison=lightbulb (those
> >who know their names at all), but I'll bet any hick in any red state can
> >tell you that Einstein, yes Einstein, was a genius ... This grossly
> >unbalanced perception is what I'm getting at.
>
> Then you should be on the case of people giving those others short
shrift,
> not minimalizing what AE did.
>
I'm NOT minimalizing with he did. I'm saying what he did is rated
disproportionately higher than what others did. I don't want another
pharma discussion. If I haven't made my point by now, then it will go
unmade and Einstein's title of Reigning Genius of All Time will be
undisturbed.
Andy
> p
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> Paul Stone
> pas@xxxxxxxx
> Kingsville, ON, Canada
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