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Quotation form the guru of gurus (or the guru of geeks, anyway)

 by CassandraofTroy @ 2008-06-01 - 10:44:08

'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.' Albert Einstein

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CollarCollar [Member]
2008-06-30 @ 09:06

That's just his opinion. (And he may have been being mischievous that day.) I'm being serious.. he certainly advanced ideas in physics... but he carried a lot of idealogical baggage around with him. Those who want to use Einstein for their own agenda will no doubt say his achievements in science were because of these extras... I think it was despite these extras. But that's just my opinion.

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CassandraofTroyCassandraofTroy [Member]
2008-06-30 @ 20:54

Can't comment on the rest, but on this I'm with Albert (obviously, that's why I posted it), and I don't think he was being mischievous.
Maths works beautifully in its own pure world - but wehn applied to the physical world, let alone the biological or social, it is subject to all kinds of messiness. Or is that just down to our inability to measure/estimate the numbers with sufficient accuracy?
PS BTW, are you stalking me??? |-|

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