Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

"Robert J. Kolker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Considering the acomplishments of the only decent Greek scientist,
> Archimedes [1], your ironic commentary borders closely on truth. What
> the Greek philosophs were missing was humility, not technology; the
> realization that one ought to submit the products of the mind to the
> judgement of Nature.

Archimedes was a remarkable engineer and mathematician.  Pretty much
nothing is known about whether he was a very good scientist.  By at
least one canon of science, he was miserable: he kept his discoveries
a secret.

Thomas