There’s a story about Einstein’s brain over at the Washington Post. It’s your basic nature vs. nurture about how this guy got to have this unique piece of gray matter between his ears.
It appears quite a few Wash. Post readers don’t think much of Ol’ Albert or his accomplishments. One particular genius wrote:
He didn’t invent, or come up with, relativity. That has existed since time began … he was the person that first -realized- it existed and then fashioned working mathematical relationships to describe it. If it wasn’t Albert Einstein, it would have been someone else that first put 2 and 2 together ….
Brilliant!! Because yes, yes, the work Einstein did is really nothing more than 2 + 2.
This leads another commenter to write something I’ve thought for a long time:
So amusing to read the pronouncments of our typical modern day (Obongo supporting) clueless clowns with a little knowlege passing judgment on one of mankind’s greatest thinkers. Utterly underserved confidence in the most meager of abilities has been the only discernible triumph of the US liberal dominated dysfunctional education system in the last 50 years.
via The Washington Post.
The combination of arrogance and ignorance is very dangerous and has infected a significant portion of the population. People — you know who you are — have become so enamored with themselves that they either cannot or simply refuse to see real genius in others.
I’ve taken four college semesters of calculus ending with differential equations. These classes would not begin to cover the mathematics that Einstein did without the assistance of a computer or even a hand-held calculator. To imply that just anyone would come along and discover 2 + 2 shows just how little the average person walking down the street actually knows about math.
It’s very very sad. Ignorance is truly bliss; but at least years ago people knew enough to keep their trap shut when they didn’t know anything.