If a quote is attributed to Einstein, it must be factual! Therefore, all you quantum mechanists are wrong! Repent!
2007-11-01 09:36:21 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I should clarify my point. I'm sick of seeing people use Einstein's quotes to support their own theological views. What he believed doesn't matter.
He was a person, and like any other person he had certain paradigmatic beliefs. His belief that "God does not play dice" was one of those, and it turned out to be wrong.
2007-11-01 09:42:00 · update #1
Einstein was wrong.
This is something I bring up when I hear stupid arguments like 'Einstein said he believed in God, what do you say to that, silly atheists?'
It amounts to argument from authority. Many physicists alive today understand relativity better than Einstein did but then he was grounded in classical mechanics. He just couldn't get his head around the quantum truths. In science the creator of a new theory isn't credited with any special understanding of their idea.
He said 'God does not play dice with the universe' when in fact as far as quantum mechanics is concerned. Probability is everything.
**Figured that's what you meant. Its like the old 'Darwin recanted on his deathbed' argument - wrong but... so what? The greatest mathematician could go on TV and say 2 + 2 is 5 but that wouldn't make it so. Truth can be revealed by great minds but it does not belong to them. It is bigger than any of us.**
You should have mentioned this was in response to Sarah B's question. I only just saw it. Idiots... 'because I said so' is not a good enough reason for any free thinker.
2007-11-01 09:38:54 · answer #1 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Well if Einstein was right about Quantum Mechanics, then somebody owes me tuition for 8 semesters of college. And my undergrad advisor, a proud quantum mechanic, will definitely have a thing or two to say to Mr. Einstein. Einstein was a brilliant guy, but he's not infallible.
2007-11-01 10:23:31 · answer #2 · answered by nardhelain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If a quote is attributed to Einstein, it must be factual" If that's what you want to believe. You must also believe that these are factual...
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."
--Albert Einstein--
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
--Albert Einstein--
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
--Albert Einstein--
Lastly scientists debate and disagree all the time. People ignorant of scientific methodology easily misunderstand what this means. It simply means that science is a sink or swim field based on the evidence you are able to bring to the table. When it works, no one gets by with "take my word for it".
2007-11-01 09:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by Demetri w 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Einstein accepted the science on Quantum Mechanics when it became evident that there was no argument against it. "God does not throw dice" But isn't it peculiar that those dice, random though they are, always produce and are responsible the exact same chemical reaction in the exact same circumstances? I think so. I think that's maddeningly interesting.
2007-11-01 09:45:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein didn't like broccoli! Therefore, I must stop liking broccoli too! And I need to work as a patent officer in Switzerland!
Yeah, the person who used Einstein as a proof of God was pretty stupid.
2007-11-01 09:39:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. Einstein couldn't accept the implications of his own theories (e.g. randomness) and spent the latter part of his life trying to prove himself wrong.
So that means general relativity is wrong? Not so much.
2007-11-01 09:41:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do agree that Einstein is overrated. His two theories of relativity are the culimination of the 19th century physics, and add little to the 20th century which was all about Quantum Physics.
2007-11-01 09:39:50 · answer #7 · answered by Belzetot 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What happened to common snese?
The man isn't god, he can be wrong.
Go jump in a pool or something, becuse you need to lighten up. (this is coming from someone wound tighter then the virgin mary's legs)
2007-11-01 09:41:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like Tesla better then Einstein anyway, so it doesn't bother me.
2007-11-01 09:59:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, provide the quote and a reference for it.
2007-11-01 09:39:01 · answer #10 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋