Comments on: Maybe Einstein Uses a “Four-Dimensional” Language (Jun, 1939)

By: mc

mc — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:53:59 +0000

That Einstein quote can’t be real. It doesn’t make sense. “Eschatology” is what clinches it. (Look it up.)

(I’m a linguistics professor. They pay me to know what words mean.)

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:25:57 +0000

“Plans that is currently helpful will for the new originating out of a functioning action necessarily generate a domestic discernible pattern of purpose…”

That’s a quote from an old Pat Paulsen bit on the old Smothers Brothers TV show. Why I can recall it after 40 years is anyone’s guess.

By: rsterling78

rsterling78 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:24:28 +0000

The original letter was written in crayon.

By: Gregly

Gregly — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:54:20 +0000

Yes! Damn those ivory-tower eggheads and their “language!” If I can’t understand it they must be just making junk up!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:31:09 +0000

Why can’t the scientists just say what they MEAN??

Oh.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:20:07 +0000

That’s not an actual Einstein quote!
I’ve often wondered what was in the ‘Letters to the Editor’.
If this is a representative letter, I’ll have to rethink that
“The Greatest Generation” appellation.