crowdsourcing a citation

August 15, 2012

Never mind, I was able to find pagination for the same passage in THIS book instead.

I don’t have my copy of Paul Feyerabend’s Farewell to Reason nearby, nor is there a complete version available online. But I need the page number(s) for the following passage:

“The younger generation of physicists, the Feynmans, the Schwingers, etc., may be very bright; they may be more intelligent than their predecessors, than Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Mach and so on. But they are uncivilized savages, they lack in philosophical depth…”


If anyone has the book and can send the page number(s) to me at gharman@aucegypt.edu, I would be grateful. (And I will strike through these words as soon as someone sends me the information, so unless the entire post is struck through, I haven’t heard from anyone yet.)

I already have the city and publisher, the date, and all that. I just need the page number(s), which for some reason I forgot to record when the book and I were last in the same place.

Feyerabend is so fun to read. Add him to your “playlist” if you haven’t done so already.

Earth in the Martian sky

August 15, 2012

This is going around Facebook. I can’t vouch for it because I don’t know the real source, but it looks plausible enough at first glance. [ADDENDUM: The Austrian artist Ralo Mayer wrote to say that this image comes from a desktop astronomy program. So no, it’s not a real image from Curiosity. Too bad.]