Comments on: Newton vs Einstein

By: Assumptions, exactitudes, perfection and creativity « electronic museum

Assumptions, exactitudes, perfection and creativity « electronic museum — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:27:00 +0000

[...] slides are an expansion on my previous post, Newton vs Einstein, and form an underlying question which continues to be an itch I need to scratch. The question is [...]

By: audioculturedotorg

audioculturedotorg — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:01:54 +0000

Hi Mike,

have you read any Kant? “One can never know the Thing in itself (Ding an sich).” Made me feel comfortable with imperfection.

Great talk yesterday.

By: Newton v. Einstein

Newton v. Einstein — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:32:21 +0000

[...] Ellis at Electronic Museum posted a terrific entry this weekend entitled Newton vs Einstein, providing some welcome physical grounding for CHNM’s longstanding motto, “the perfect [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:17:53 +0000

Thanks Tom! The programme is well worth a listen – inspiring stuff

Mike

By: Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:15:30 +0000

Hi Mike -- Fantastic post, appealing to both the historian of science in me and the digital humanist. And spot on at that. For the past six years or so, our unofficial motto at the Cetner for History and New Media has been "the perfect is the enemy of the good" (after Voltaire, Clausewitz, et al.) Tom