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And I want to see the ad campaign to paint Einstein as an idiot...I was trying to find a picture of him with Marilyn Monroe, to show ... well, who knows. However, according to all available information (aka the interweb), they never met. Ignoring his unfailing belief in a God, which unto itself is fine and may well be accurate but which led to him spending many years trying to disprove his own theories, I'm inclined to agree with your sentiment. And just for fun... Einstein v Monroe
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Ignoring his unfailing belief in a God, which unto itself is fine and may well be accurate but which led to him spending many years trying to disprove his own theories, I'm inclined to agree with your sentiment. Note: that's a God. Einstein's God wasn't what most people think of when they think "God". As for disproving his own theories, that's what science is about. Not all scientists are up to the task of trying to disprove their own theories, but someone's gotta do it.
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What Faldage says is true. There's a lot of urban myths about Einstein and his ideas about God, etc. Einstein's "God" was, like most else about the man, a fairly idiosyncratic one.
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What Faldage says is true. There's a lot of urban myths about Einstein and his ideas about God, etc. Einstein's "God" was, like most else about the man, a fairly idiosyncratic one. not so sure about that. and thanks for the link, Fald.
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Granted, it's Anu's facility, but am I the only one who resents the injection of his political beliefs into a Word.a.Day? Political beliefs? Can you expand please, provide some quotes. I didn't notice anything here or there about last week's theme. The inauguration was historical, (and extremely popular, world-wide). Why can we not take notice without our own politics coming through?
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you want apolitical linguistics? our newly inaugerated 44th president is actually only the 43rd person to be president: link - joe (no nit picked before its time) friday From the link, "'the President who served during the Nth term'. If that were true, George Washington would be both the first and second President" I disagree with this. Washington was not 2 presidents. He was one president who won a second term. Was George Bush 2 presidents? No, he was one, who served a second term.
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the difference with Grover Cleveland was, quoting myself here, he served two terms non-contiguously; i.e., he was both the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President. how else would you deal with the numbering without making things *more complicated to explain than that?
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the difference with Grover Cleveland was, quoting myself here, he served two terms non-contiguously; i.e., he was both the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President. how else would you deal with the numbering without making things *more complicated to explain than that? But why shouldn't it be complicated? After all, choosing the President is part of one of the most convoluted, complex, incomprehensible ways of doing democracy in the free world!
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Until I'm president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective--
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