Jed, You are tough and rightly so. Now Einstein had his peculiarities in his personal live and possibly other aspects. Being a womanizer and such, which I personally do not quite find very amusing, whatever.
But this is not what it is all about. It is about the peers and the attitude towards them. Eg Newton was a bloody bigot, speculating in the stock market and such while reading the bible every day. Maybe at his time this all nicely fitted together in a latter day realization of protestant ethics, which he should have found, that this is is a silly imagination. Seems to be more difficult than postulating the law of gravity, right? So maybe I have to retreat to an abstract ideal of a honest person-- the hypothetical 'Jesus' of an agnostic I am, as a norm of decent behavior. The 'ideal' You refer to, which I tried to deconstruct, is some protestant ethic person as a posterboy for capitalism, which as such does not exist either. So let us agree that we are en par wrt that. (Btw, complaints mount, that this is something offtopic. I beg to differ. This belongs to the large scheme of things.) What You seem to see as an excuse, concerning Rossi --that he is human, all-to human-- for me is a suspicion. maybe unjustified, maybe not. If it were so easy. Guenter ________________________________ Von: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 21:59 Dienstag, 10.Juli 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]: ECAT 600 C Operations Guenter Wildgruber <gwildgru...@ymail.com> wrote: b) the ones being humble enough to recognize that they stand on the shoulders of giants, as maybe Einstein did. > > >Can you imagine Einstein aspiring being a billionaire? But to describe Einstein, of all people, as being humble or selfless is ridiculous. He was a nice fellow by all accounts, except...
