[lit-ideas] Re: Related issues/Understanding Why Newton Contributed To Human Knowledge With A False Theory
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 18:51:47 -0800
On Dec 5, 2007, at 11:09 AM, wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
Cheers, Walter
Student to Sir Karl: But sir, where can I find true knowledge??
SK: Tried the library?
After three full days of student oral exams and presentations re. the
next batch of theses, one phrase sticks in my mind: the title of a
proposal to create a pamphlet that would be available to young people
who have been diagnosed with cancer and who are surrounded by advice
and fears and procedures and the whole medical morass, "There is no
Wisdom in it." Why did it resonate? Partly because I had just sat
through a thesis defense in which photos of people whose breast
cancer was in remission were described in heroic terms--"these are
the folk to admire," was the implicit message. Where to find true
knowledge or wisdom? Not, I think, in the lottery of suffering.
David Ritchie
probably not helping in
Portland, Oregon
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