And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Calculus is a method with a language. You invent it just like you do any other way of doing something. To Anonymous above, does a thing exist before you discover how to do it, or is it created when you do? It's a deep philosophical question.
Did the first person to have the concept of a door invent it? Or just find it?
Does the power work in your house? Thank Tesla who developed the relatively efficient AC power network for Westinghouse (instead of Edison's very inefficient DC grid system).
How does one invent calculus?
ReplyDeleteOne does not, but one does discover it and it's principles.
DeleteCalculus is a method with a language. You invent it just like you do any other way of doing something. To Anonymous above, does a thing exist before you discover how to do it, or is it created when you do? It's a deep philosophical question.
DeleteDid the first person to have the concept of a door invent it? Or just find it?
Every one of them white men. This is racist.
ReplyDeleteAh, R. Franklin was a white woman associated with the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
DeleteA Shaker woman invented the circular saw.
DeleteMarie Curie was a woman. Many of these people were also jewish. Not to mention that Alan Turing was gay.
DeleteNot sure if your definition of "white" includes jews and gays...
I don't think the list is racist but I do think you are!
And if they were all black, I suppose you would just say that we were "celebrating black history". Gratitude is a good thing.
Delete@4:55, you say that as if it's a bad thing.
DeleteThe Einstein tribe do not think they are white. But, Alf is a plagiarist and a Fraud so you remain correct.
ReplyDeleteAlf was a TV show character and what does Sigmund Fraud have to do with this post?
DeleteHey Willie! Loved that show.
DeleteAlmost all (all but one) Dead White Males.
ReplyDeleteSort of like there's a lesson in there about Wakanda, and cultural equivalency.
Watson and Crick were the ones who figured out the double helix of DNA. They were not female.
ReplyDeleteAll wipipo
ReplyDeleteEdison hatred is unreasonable.
ReplyDeleteWhy did people develop such an unreasonable like for syphilitic failures like tesla?
Does the power work in your house? Thank Tesla who developed the relatively efficient AC power network for Westinghouse (instead of Edison's very inefficient DC grid system).
DeleteRe calculus invention….ask Newton or Liebniz…. They both did it independent of each other at about the same time frame..
ReplyDeleteObviously all white supremacists and racist as well and need to be stricken from history…
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