Re: Science was Einstein's Religion.
- From: Surfer <surfer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:29:36 +0930
On 19 Apr 2006 13:34:06 GMT, Jeff?Relf <Jeff_Relf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All, Einstein believed _True_ theorists are Sober_Minded metaphysicists,
saying:
Every _True_ theorist is a kind of tamed metaphysicist,
no matter how pure a positivist he may fancy himself.
[ ... He believes in ]
a conceptual system built on premises of great simplicity.
He also believed randomness was _Always_
a failure to measure some intrinsic causality. For example, he once said:
The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation.
The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past.
__ See Albert Einstein's The_World_As_I_See_It
StephenJayGould.ORG/ctrl/einstein_religion.html
Consequently, he felt physical processes determined absolutely everything,
including man's desires. See WikiPedia.ORG/wiki/Physicalism
For example, he once said:
I do not believe in freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's words:
? Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills ?
accompany me in all situations throughout my life
and reconcile me with the actions of others
even if they are rather painful to me.
This awareness of the lack of freedom of will
preserves me from taking too seriously myself and my fellow men
as acting and deciding individuals and from losing my temper."
__ From a speech by Albert Einstein to the German League of Human Rights,
Berlin, in the autumn of 1932, See: EinsteinAndReligion.COM/credo.html
Driven by such a faith,
Eistein became a master at finding once hidden causalities.
For example, his General Relativity explained exactly how
a clock with 10 ^ -16 second accuracy ticks faster
with a minute increase in altitude... long before it was empirically proven.
See: Time Too Good to Be True, PhysicsToday.ORG/vol-59/iss-3/p10.html
Thanks for the above.
The new religion/philosophy of Scientific Pantheism seems to be
promoting a similar worldview.
http://www.pantheism.net/paul/beliefs.htm
I feel this is a very healthy development.
They have devoted a web page to Einstein here.
http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/einstein.htm
.
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