Re: this is the time to pray

From: Beth (BethStone21_at_hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:01:44 GMT

alextangent wrote:
> Beth wrote:
> > "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
> > God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."
> > [ Pope ]
>
> It did not last: the Devil howling, "Ho,
> Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.
> J. C. Squire

:)

Except Einstein wasn't an "enemy" of Newton at all:

"Newton himself was better aware of the weaknesses inherent in his
intellectual edifice than the generations that followed him. This fact has
always roused my admiration"
[ Albert Einstein, "Essays in Science", 1934 ]

And it was no "restoring the status quo" at all:

"All of these endeavors are based on the belief that existence should have
a completely harmonious structure. Today we have less ground than ever
before for allowing ourselves to be forced away from this wonderful belief"
[ Albert Einstein, "Essays in Science", 1934 (referring as much to Newton
as anyone else, considering his work merely an "extension" of a long, noble
"quest"...the one Newton, in a sense, began...to create that "harmonious"
universe) ]

But trust you to bring anything to the table if it "attacks" me somehow, in
any regard - small or big - whatsoever...even the employ of the devil to
achieve that quest is to your liking, Mr.Faust?

Beth :)

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