[dr_lew]

A man is here revealed who posesses the passionate will, the intelligence, and the courage to stand up as the representative of rational thinking against the host of those who, relying on the ignorance of the people and the indolence of teachers in priest's and scholar's garb, maintain and defend their positions of authority. His unusual literary gift enables him to address the educated men of his age in such clear and impressive language as to overcome the anthropocentric and mythical thinking of his contemporaries and to lead them back to an objective and causal attitude toward the cosmos, an attitude which had become lost to humanity with the decline of Greek culture.

Albert Einstein, in his foreword to Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, written at Princeton, 1952

... and what do you suppose he meant by THAT ?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

It means that Einstein was not looking when God performed His miracles, as if Einstein and all the other scientists could observe every quantum level event in the universe from its beginning and determine the natural cause of all. HA!

[RegulatorCountry]

Ptolemy was Greek, was he not, dr_lew?

Einstein was not Christian, and was not even especially Jewish, from a religious perspective; he was secular and best described as agnostic. He wasn’t seeking to validate any religion. Nor was he deliberately seeking to negate any religion. He took physics where it led, and upended numerous a priori orthodoxies along the way.

I do wonder, what Einstein would think of the gold-plated priesthood that has sprung up around certain aspects of politicized science, though. I suspect he’d be rather dismissive of them.

[UCANSEE2]

... and what do you suppose he meant by THAT ?

That people were just being ignorant, for a while.

Happens all the time.