Intellectual heroes

[TA1LGUNN3R]

"Tesla lived in a time when the world demanded results that were practical and profitable."

What's wrong with that?

-TG

I'm saying that's hardly true considering the success of the theoretical physicists of that time (Einstein, Planck, Bohr)

Yeah, I know. I was just commenting on the author's seeming portrayal of Edison as a "douche" because he wanted to make some money, and then a false correlation with Tesla's philanthropy because he was so generous. It's an attempt to politicize science and scientists to fit an agenda.

Not that I'm saying Edison wasn't a douche, or that Tesla wasn't brilliant.

-TG

[Army of GOD]

"Tesla lived in a time when the world demanded results that were practical and profitable."

What's wrong with that?

-TG

I'm saying that's hardly true considering the success of the theoretical physicists of that time (Einstein, Planck, Bohr)

Yeah, I know. I was just commenting on the author's seeming portrayal of Edison as a "douche" because he wanted to make some money, and then a false correlation with Tesla's philanthropy because he was so generous. It's an attempt to politicize science and scientists to fit an agenda.

Not that I'm saying Edison wasn't a douche, or that Tesla wasn't brilliant.

-TG

Oh, I thought you were criticizing me. Which made me confused because you used quotation marks instead of the built in quote feature and I was like "dis jigga serious?"

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Mark Twain, a timeless author, and an amusingly witty philosopher whose observations always make me smile at how true they remain.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/autho ... twain.html

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Twain and Tesla were best buds, too. Old-timey bromance.

-TG

[Crazyirishman]

Plato- all of western philosophy is a footnote to Plato

Typical republican

A very good play on words by Jonesy.

I also like Descartes, Buckminster Fuller, Einstein (but not for all that physics shit, mostly his view on intuition vs rationality) and some others.

[Symmetry]

Monty Python, all of him.

[Phatscotty]

I just finished page 1 of Aristotle today. Of course, this plops in my lap hours later from out of nowhere.

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." Aristotle.

[Crazyirishman]

I just finished page 1 of Aristotle today. Of course, this plops in my lap hours later from out of nowhere.

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." Aristotle.

I understand Aristotle on a lot of things and see his brilliance. I particularly like how he is one of the few philosophers that puts a value on friendship, but I hate reading his works because for me its like reading and accounting manual.

"All humans by nature desire to know."