01-05-2017, 12:51 PM
Yesterday, January 4th, was the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton born in 1643. He proved the planets of our solar system were governed by the same laws of physics as objects on earth.
He said, “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” I wonder how much truth he would think may be found in the convoluted meanderings of the TMT hearings?
He also said, “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Perhaps not so different from the physicists and astrophysicists of today who watch in wonder beneath the clear cold skies of Mauna Kea, hoping to discover a hazy and smoother nebula or prettier comet streaming by.
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
He said, “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” I wonder how much truth he would think may be found in the convoluted meanderings of the TMT hearings?
He also said, “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Perhaps not so different from the physicists and astrophysicists of today who watch in wonder beneath the clear cold skies of Mauna Kea, hoping to discover a hazy and smoother nebula or prettier comet streaming by.
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”