Re: Leibniz vs Newton


"Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:phineaspuddleduck-B4A073.11384409122006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <h4adnVGMqYWEBufYRVnyswA@xxxxxxxxx>,
"T Wake" <usenet.es7at@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I love the crank war cries along the lines education forces people not to
think and not to challenge the accepted knowledge. It really makes me
laugh,
especially when I think back to conversations I had in university where
_everyone_ is trying to find a flaw in the previous work so they can make
a
name for themselves.

One day, I would love to know where cranks get this common misconception
from. Is it really because they are stuck in "High School" mode and think
university is the same but longer?

Oh yes. They seem to understand the concept that the glory is there in
trying to identify a new way to attack difficult issues, but fail to
understand thats what academia is attempting to do. They take their
rejection (on the grounds that their "theories" are idiocy) as a sign
that academics are "surpressing them".

"Help, help I'm being repressed!"

If only it were so simple eh?


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