Re: Einstein's attraction to science?

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:51:13 +0100

"John Zinni" <j_zinni.NOCRAP@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:083Pd.5411$504.827267@news20.bellglobal.com...
> "brett" <account@cygen.com> wrote in message
> news:1108130843.273465.241100@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > Einstein described his attraction to science as a "flight" from
> > something to something. I heard this quote on the radio a while back
> > and didn't understand what the host was saying. I can't find a similar
> > quote by Einstein on the web. Any ideas?
>
> "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual
> flight from wonder."
> Albert Einstein
> http://www.tc.umn.edu/~burc0050/quotes_einstein.html

Hm, I haven't seen the original quote in German, but from
what I learned at school, I think the translation should
perhaps rather be "... a flight *of* wonder".

I guess the original word was "flug".
Then someone translated the word to "flight" in the
meaning of "an act or instance of passing through the
air by the use of wings", but then someone else
interpreted the word flight as "an act or instance of
running away".

I cannot imagine that Einstein thought that scientific
discovery was an act of running away from wonder,
quite on the contrary...

Dirk Vdm

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