January 2, 2006
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Then a Miracle Occurs
The New York Times on Sunday,
New Year’s Day, 2006,
by John Horgan–
”Einstein Has Left the Building“–“Down the hall from my office, Albert Einstein’s electric-haired visage
beams from a poster for the ‘World Year of Physics 2005.’ The poster
celebrates the centennial of the ‘miraculous year’ when a young patent
clerk in Bern, Switzerland, revolutionized physics with five papers on
relativity, quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. ‘Help make 2005
another Miraculous Year!’ the poster exclaims…. As 2005 wound down with no miracles in sight, the poster took on an
increasingly poignant cast, like a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker….”From a debate:
KERRY: “I’m going to be a president who believes in science.”
KERRY: “I’m a Catholic – raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has
been a huge part of my life, helped lead me through a war, leads me
today.”BUSH: “Trying to decipher that.”
Click on “religion” in this quote to find out what Einstein really meant.
Here’s a bumper sticker for Horgan:
More from Horgan’s New Year’s Day sermon:
“We revere [Einstein] not only as a scientific
genius but also as a moral and even spiritual sage….”“What you mean ‘we,’ blue man?”
– The Red States
Comments (2)
Wasn’t it Isaac Asimov who said, “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
Yeah.
Wait, perhaps I should have said, “Gravity Sucks”.
Yeah.