Cita de Albert Einstein
Publicado: Mar Oct 07, 2008 10:53 pm
Recientemente en uno de los hilos traje a colaciòn una cita de Albert Einstein la cual leìa lo siguiente:
Yo por mi parte en realidad me hubiera podido sentar a que se probara que el reportero del Times que citò a Einstein mentìa. Pero bueno ciertamente solo existìa la cita referida y habrìa que creerle al Times (para mì suficiente) . Pero bueno , es que se me ocurriò pensar por que , si la cita era tan "controversial" no hubo nadie que le preguntara a Einstein mismo.
Lo interesante al final fue que en efecto lo hubo y por eso le digo ahora a Garabato:
Garabato, cuestionò la cita y no solo eso sino que la diò por apòcrifa:"Cuando tuvo lugar la revolución en Alemania, miré con confianza a las universidades, pues sabía que siempre se habían enorgullecido de su devoción por la causa de la verdad. Pero las universidades fueron amordazadas. Entonces confié en los grandes editores de los diarios que proclamaban su amor por la libertad. Pero, al igual que las universidades, también ellos tuvieron que callar, sofocados en pocas semanas. Sólo la Iglesia permaneció firme, en pie, para cerrar el camino a las campañas de Hitler que pretendían suprimir la verdad. Antes nunca había experimentado un interés particular por la Iglesia, pero ahora siento por ella un gran afecto y admiración, porque la Iglesia fue la única que tuvo la valentía y la constancia para defender la verdad intelectual de la libertad moral."
[Albert Einstein, judío alemán y premio nobel de física, en la revista norteamericana TIME el 23 de diciembre de 1940]
apelando en primera instancia al siguiente enlace http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary ... 666304_ITM el cual reza lo siguiente:El prinunciamiento es apócrifo
Yo respondì con la ediciòn de Times misma:Misquoting Einstein: a statement attributed to Einstein, praising the Church's response to Nazism isn't what it claims to be.........
There is a widely reproduced statement, attributed to Einstein, in which he enthusiastically praises the Church. As far as I have been able to find, this statement first appeared in Time magazine, December 23, 1940 (page 38). (1) "The best tribute to the spirit of Germany's Christians comes from a Jew and an agnostic (Time, Sept. 23)--the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein," the article says. Einstein is then quoted as saying:
a lo que Garabato nos responde con cierta arrogancia:............ the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein. Says he:
"Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. . . .
"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 03,00.html
Estoy acostumbrado por demàs a estos usuales apelos a Magisterios ateos que al final resultan que algunos se maman dogmàticamente sobre todo cuando se intimidan ante las credenciales de los especuladores que juegan a inequìvocos eruditos con rimbombantes currículums:Hola YoSoy:
Veo que no has aportado nada nuevo; pues podrás darte cuenta que tu link vuelve a citar a TIMES como fuente del supuesto pronunciamiento de Einstein...algo que nadie disputa. El problema es que TIMES no presenta ninguna fuente de donde la obtuvo... ni el lugar, ni la fecha, ni que reportero la escuchó, ni nada de nada.
Aparte de esa falta de confirmación independiente,la cita en sí tiene algunas dificultades: empezando porque hace parecer a Einstein como un verdadero idiota (al final dice haber "despreciado" (despiced) algo por lo que no tenía ningún interés particular); tampoco concuerda la susodicha cita con su estilo de escritura; y se muestra en claro contraste con otros pronunciamientos de Einstein al respecto de la situación en Alemania. Por si fuera poco no aparece en el libro The Expanded Quotable Einstein, que contiene casi todas las citas públicas que se le conocen. La frase es más falsa que la donación de Constantino
Eso no es todo, el golpe final a la cita viene del mismo "autor", como muestra una carta en los archivos de Einstein en Jerusalem, Einstein nos aclara la situación en cuanto dice que una vez le mencionó a unos reporteros que "muy pocos intelectuales alemanes, con excepción de algunos clérigos, se habían pronunciado en defensa de los derechos individuales y la libertad intelectual". Después añade que sus afirmaciones habían sido "drásticamente exageradas, hasta el punto de ser incapaz de reconocerlas como propias".
Fuente: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-01-05.html#note09
Al parecer tenemos que añadir la supuesta cita a una más de las inventadas por creyentes sobre tan ilustre personaje, una verdadera falta de honestidad intelectual.Al parecer el apócrifo es quien señala la cita como apócrifa
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-01-05.html#note09In this week’s eSkeptic, William C. Waterhouse investigates a statement, attributed to Albert Einstein, ostensibly praising the Church.
William C. Waterhouse received a Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard University. He has written more than 150 professional publications and has been a professor of mathematics at Penn State for 30 years. For a decade he has been an active participant in the alt.quotations Internet newsgroup.
Yo por mi parte en realidad me hubiera podido sentar a que se probara que el reportero del Times que citò a Einstein mentìa. Pero bueno ciertamente solo existìa la cita referida y habrìa que creerle al Times (para mì suficiente) . Pero bueno , es que se me ocurriò pensar por que , si la cita era tan "controversial" no hubo nadie que le preguntara a Einstein mismo.
Lo interesante al final fue que en efecto lo hubo y por eso le digo ahora a Garabato:
Tic tac....YoSoY escribió:Vamos a poner a prueba la HONESTIDAD INTELECTUAL.Garabato escribió
Al parecer tenemos que añadir la supuesta cita a una más de las inventadas por creyentes sobre tan ilustre personaje, una verdadera falta de honestidad intelectual.
Y toma "apócrifo":
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200706A19.htmlGUEST: I have a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to my father in 1943. In 1940, my father read a "Time Magazine" article that stated that Einstein was quoted as saying that the only social institution that stood up to Nazism was the Christian Church. My father is a Presbyterian minister in a little northern Michigan town called Harbor Springs.
APPRAISER: Uh-huh.
GUEST: And he quoted Einstein in a sermon, and a member of the congregation wrote my father a letter saying, "Where did you get your information?" So my father wrote "Time Magazine" and "Time Magazine" wrote him back, and I have that letter, too, but they didn't give the source, so my father wrote Einstein and he wrote back, saying, yes, he did say that the Christian Church was standing up to Hitler and Nazism.
APPRAISER: I love this story for a lot of reasons. One, it's about your dad checking his references,
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: checking his facts, and how important it is to get your references right. He goes to the first reference—"Time Magazine."
GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: He doesn't get a good answer and he goes beyond that.
GUEST: Mm-hmm... exactly.
APPRAISER: The second reason I really like this story is that your dad kept all the supporting material...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...behind the letter that he eventually got from Einstein confirming, "Yes, I did say this about the Christian Church. It is the only social institution that could stand up to the Nazi regime." So the first letter I have in this stack is the letter from the parishioner, who says, "Where'd that quote come from?"
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: And then the second letter is the letter from "Time Magazine." They're kind of hedging their bets.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: I love that they can't really confirm it...
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: ...but they won't deny it. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said it, he said it." And then the third thing. Even though he kept all of this original primary support material, your dad took the time to write a three- or four-paragraph essay in which he explains the story behind the Albert Einstein letter.
GUEST: Right, mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: This is terrific; I mean, if I could get one message across to people who own historical manuscripts, who own letters from famous people, who own archives, and the people who know the story behind them, it would be: please just take five minutes and write it down for the next generation. Because even though everybody knows it today...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...there is a really good chance that the oral tradition will not survive with the paper.
GUEST: Exactly.
APPRAISER: If you had brought this letter in without the supporting documents, I would have looked at it, and it says, "It's true that I made a statement which corresponds approximately with the text you quoted. I made this statement during the first years of the Nazi regime-- much earlier than 1940-- and my expressions were a little more moderate." And I would say, "Well, that's a nice typed letter from Einstein, says something about Nazis," but I wouldn't really know what he was talking about...
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: ...if your father had not saved all the material that is appropriate to it. Have you ever had this Einstein letter appraised?
GUEST: Never.
APPRAISER: Well, it's on just typing paper. He used to blind stamp his return address, and it's typed and then signed here. Normally, a run-of-the-mill typed Einstein letter from this period is about $1,500 at auction.
GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: But with this fantastic story behind it, a $1,500 letter becomes... a $5,000 letter.
GUEST: Wow.
Confirmado de PUÑO Y LETRA DE EINSTEIN MISMO!
Signed, sealed and delivered!!
Si tienes 5000 dolares puedes tener tu mismo la carta....... y seguramente encotraras que falsificaron la firma pfffft!
Múestrame ahora, tu "honestidad intelectual"