Reginald Selkirk
2008-04-29 14:29:21
“The great physical scientists — Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein — were either men of religious commitment or religious sensibility.”
I think you’re on to something – every one of those great scientists had trouble accepting quantum mechanics. Even Einstein, who can be credited with some early advances in QM, made his silly “God doesn’t play dice” comment. Einstein, by the way, did not believe in a personal god. Everyone who is qualified to speak on his religious inclinations knows that.
Another common trait: they’re all dead.
