Questions actually answered
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:34 pm
Everybody. Here is a new thread and I propose very simple rules for it.
If anyone finds a situation where a question has been asked AND THEN ANSWERED.... No matter who does the asking and who does the answering ... if its relevant to everything we have been talking about here ... lets list just the question and the answer and leave the comments that might ensue to other pars of the forum. In other words the Question/Answer will be the only things on this particular thread ... Can we do that? I have the wild assed idea that somehow a body of that information , without other comments, will somehow be very useful to us and might inform other parts of our discussions here on the forum. In that spirit here goes my first entry .......( where you can please quote your source so that we can stay on as solid ground as possible. Thankyou all so much.)
QUESTION WAS .... DO SCIENTISTS PRAY?
"Einstein said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man...In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." [Letter to a child who asked if scientist pray, January 24, 1936; pg. 152 Calaprice]
Well, the answer came first in this selection, but catch my drift? And in reading my own question/ answer ... I am realizing that " a religious feeling of a special sort" might not answer the question directly ... Do scientists pray? " I think if someone had asked Dad the same question his answer might have been the same. Linda
If anyone finds a situation where a question has been asked AND THEN ANSWERED.... No matter who does the asking and who does the answering ... if its relevant to everything we have been talking about here ... lets list just the question and the answer and leave the comments that might ensue to other pars of the forum. In other words the Question/Answer will be the only things on this particular thread ... Can we do that? I have the wild assed idea that somehow a body of that information , without other comments, will somehow be very useful to us and might inform other parts of our discussions here on the forum. In that spirit here goes my first entry .......( where you can please quote your source so that we can stay on as solid ground as possible. Thankyou all so much.)
QUESTION WAS .... DO SCIENTISTS PRAY?
"Einstein said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man...In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." [Letter to a child who asked if scientist pray, January 24, 1936; pg. 152 Calaprice]
Well, the answer came first in this selection, but catch my drift? And in reading my own question/ answer ... I am realizing that " a religious feeling of a special sort" might not answer the question directly ... Do scientists pray? " I think if someone had asked Dad the same question his answer might have been the same. Linda