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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, December 27, 2021

The Nobel Prizes should be renamed

Aristotle was the tutor of Alexander the Great. Sir Isaac Newton obtained his position as Master of the Mint -- more or less equivalent to head of the Federal Reserve Bank in the U.S. -- by pimping out his beautiful young niece to British noblemen. Charles Darwin provided a rationale and justification for British Imperialism by arguing that Africans, Indians and Orientals were racially inferior to Anglo-Saxons. Albert Einstein obtained much of his influence and power by fundraising for the state of Israel, and was offered the position of President of Israel, in return. In all cases, these "Great Scientists" obtained their influence by groveling at the feet of the rich and powerful, regardless of truth or social utility. Hence, I believe it might be appropriate to understand what the Scientific Method truly is -- the Scientific Method is kissing ass. Specifically, the Scientific Method is kissing the ass of the rich and powerful. So, I would suggest, at this point, in the light of the continuing crisis over COVID, we should rename the Nobel Prizes accordingly. They are, in fact, The Ass-Kissing Award in Chemistry, The Ass-Kissing Award in Physics, and the Ass-Kissing Award in Medicine and the Ass-Kissing Award in Economics, respectively. Of course, the Nobel Peace Prize, is the Award for Ass-Kissing the nations of Sweden and Norway, specifically. But, we already knew that, didn't we?

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