On Feb 16, 9:40 am, GregfromBoston <[email protected]> wrote: > He also advised FDR not to do it, and was extremely, and devoutly > religious.
lol... uh, no Einstein was NOT devoutly religious... while he did sometimes use God as a reference for certain things, if anything he was agnostic. "Only Buddhism is compatible with science. It covers the smallest particles to the largest creations of the cosmos. It is the only religion capable of scientific truth." - Albert Einstein Does this sound like a guy who is supporting Judaism or religion? Buddhists don't believe in a God Greg. And another great American scientist Carl Sagan as eulogized by his wife Ann Druyan ... When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me--it still sometimes happens-- and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous--not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in _Cosmos_, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it's much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful. Copyright (c)2003 Ann Druyan Sorry Greg, he never believed in illusions either. > It was a dem congress that killed the Superconducting Super Collider > in 1993 Probably because they already have one! And instead invested in the much larger one in Europe. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
