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>What do discoveries have to do with this?
With "this"?
I was describing how it is *not* necessarily useless, or a complete waste of
time, for someone to "rework ground" already covered by others.
You may recall that the quotation cited had Einstein putting down Lasker for
doing this.
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>Einstein was a person whose
>judgment on matters such as this - i.e. whether a man whom he knew
>well over a period of decades was a decent human being - can be
>trusted absolutely.
Right. It was only on scientific/mathematical matters where he could not be
so trusted, and was prone to human error. :-)
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>Obviously you have a very distorted picture of Einstein if he riminds
>you of Bill Gates in some way.
An irrlevant hypotheitical statement.
What reminded me of something Bill Gates once said, was the ludicrous idea
that once ground has been covered by one man (or even several), no other could
ever find anything new or important by re-examination thereof.
I gave Gates as an example precisely because he is the richest man in the
world, and got there due to Microsoft Windows -- a graphical user interface,
for which there was "no useful purpose." :-)
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>Gates is a product of chance and a totally uninteresting individual
That is purely subjective. Every year, several magazines publish articles
(be they intersting or dull) on the world's richest people, and Gates has
topped the lists for some time now.
Sam Walton's death split the Wal-mart fortune into "tiny" fragments of "only"
18 billion dollars apiece, so he is relatively safe from that particular
threat.
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>Einstein was a great scientist and an admirable individual in every respect.
Ironically, Einstein himself is often regarded as having wasted much time and
energy in fruitless pursuits -- just as he is quoted as having charged Lasker
with doing -- the only difference being that the ground covered was not already
farmed, but rather, dry, barren ground....
BTW, putting Lasker down does not, in any way, elevate Einstein.
"Relativity" does not work like that! :-)
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