To: Quix
His Treatise on Opticks was more mystical than scientific. When did he write that? Age 29 or later, probably. That's where most scientists finally admit they don't know anything. They know stuff beyond doubt until they begin to study stuff. When they have studied stuff they know, --long enough or deeply enough,-- they realize they not only don't know stuff, but they can't know stuff. Happens by age 29. It's all mysticism from then on.
To: RightWhale
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT POINT.
One I would enjoy a fair number here KNOWING MORE EXPERIENTIALLY . . . or at least more consciously . . . or perhapts more at all.
97 posted on
02/22/2003 7:37:30 PM PST by
Quix
(KATHLEEN'S FINAL WARNING EXCERPTS should be up on the Newton thread in a few hours)
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