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Re: Idiocosmology

At the bottom of that post there is something I find offensive:

"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.

Erwin Schroedinger would have constructed this in a grammatically,
not politically, correct form. You do his memory a great disservice
in imputing to him this "inclusive language" crap that he certainly
never indulged in. Let his real words speak for him. Even if it is
in German I think most of us here could handle it. Shame on you!

Leigh

I'm sorry that you think that you are representative of the majority of the
people with whom I communicate. Anyone who understands the normal useage
of square brackets knows that these are NOT the words of the author. I'm
also sorry that you seem to have chosen to think that I use this quote in
this fashion just to be offensive to you. Neither of your assumptions
happens to be the case. I take no shame from this.

Dewey

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Professor of Physics Dept: (208)385-3775
Department of Physics/MCF421/418 Fax: (208)385-4330
Boise State University dykstrad@bsumail.idbsu.edu
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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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