Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Friday, May 2. 2008

QQQ

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

Albert Einstein

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 11:42 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

So I'm a judge in a field, and I'm being shipwrecked - by laughter. Only Einstein could get away with something that convoluted. Good thing he saved the hard-core logic for his equations.
#1 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-05-02 13:30 (Reply)
The capital "T" and "K" are the point, I think.
#1.1 BD on 2008-05-02 13:34 (Reply)
I once made hay about the Truth while adrift in a sea of existentialism to much giggling from a man who supposed he was the apotheosis of humanism. I told him I was a thinker and he said I was shipwrecked in my field. I harnessed the wind of his contention and plowed a furrow in his argument by observing that he had absolutely made a finite point.
#2 Jephnol on 2008-05-02 14:19 (Reply)
See, now, to me THAT makes sense.
#2.1 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-05-02 17:27 (Reply)
I think Einstein was talking about himself. Who else ever came that close to the gods and their handiwork?

Jephnol, did you harvest that hay or plow it asunder?
#3 Meta on 2008-05-02 18:09 (Reply)
I like to plow things asunder.
#3.1 Jephnol on 2008-05-02 19:20 (Reply)
René Descartes
#4 F. Evans-Charles Hawthorne IV on 2008-05-02 20:13 (Reply)
Einstein would have done well to listen to himself on that one. Though a difficult person throughout his life, on the basis of his ability to think about the physics questions of his day, he thought it proper to pontificate to the world about war and peace, God, and social values. He showed little insight in any of the fields outside his own.
#5 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2008-05-03 00:02 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.