…I read a remainding quote on Facebook, Einstein once said “thinking and thinking for months, for years, 99 times wrong conclusions, the 100-th time I am right” – you have to admit, not only smart, he was such a wise philosopher too…
…though he didn’t like socks that much, he mentioned that he stopped wearing socks because his big toe would always make a hole in them, imagine now a “black hole” in your sock, what a catastrophic phenomena – and he had some strange “conditions” for his wife, almost the same as, lets say… Aristotle thought slavery is something to be proud of, or he claimed that women have fewer teeth than men, but he never verified this by examining his wives’ mouths, his statement has been criticized (and should be heavily criticized) for its lack of empirical evidence, imagine… what a shame, you sleep with your wife yet you don’t know how many teeth she has, even if your love is 100% in darkness you should “feel” something, right, you could just ask your lovely wife dear Aristotle – the same, I have read something like “ultimatum” written by Einstein for his wife, I simply couldn’t understand why she stayed with him, why she accepted to be his wife any further, or perhaps she kept the silence just for God’s sake, not to make a scandal of it, I respect that : )
…anyways, about his wisdom, to be honest, almost the same here, “thinking and thinking for months, for years, 99 times wrong conclusions, the 100-th time again not 100% sure if I am right – I say so cause still no Nobel here, otherwise for years and years someone would have recognised my wisdom, unfortunately not, that’s the truth : ) – at least he was right about the photoelectric effect, he was wrong about his own wife… but right about the photoelectric effect, he proposed that a beam of light is not a wave propagating through space, but discrete energy packets (which later was popularised as photons), thus he got his Nobel for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect…
…the rest were just imaginations, truly wild imaginations, he praised imagination, his imaginations still “confuse” science today, he himself was never sure, he even couldn’t accept “quantum scientia” that much – for example, the famous Bohr-Einstein debates are known as series of public disputes about quantum mechanics, of course their disputes have some importance to the philosophy of science, at least it’s “history”, scientific philosophy is important too, but thus were disputes… and he could never be sure if our Moon “could be and not be there” where it is, just the same as he refused to accept that socks are important too, with “black holes” or not, he simply didn’t like socks etc etc : )
(sg – ars poetica, dec 25)
