God Does Not Play Dice
By - Steven Lo
I don't think I'm starting a wave of protest or rioting when I say that Albert
Einstein was a genius.
But I'm not talking about E = mc2, or relativity, or the countless thought
experiments concocted in that crackpot brain of his. No doubt those were
important contributions to science and the world at large, but enough with
the same old accolades already. How many different ways are there to ride
the same dick?
No, the genius I'm referring to is something other: an Einstein quotation
that's never been given its due credit. It's been publicized, recited, used for
argument often in the last 75 years, but never has it been lauded as
especially genius from the genius, because no one has ever perceived the
words as I recently have.
And the quotation goes like this: "God does not play dice with the universe."
At the time of utterance, the statement probably came off as "oh, that's
nice," just another bite-sized Einstein axiom about the universe and the laws
governing it. Nothing special, right? You read it just now and, if I'm not
being too presumptuous; there was nothing in the line that inspired awe
from or moved you to tears. That's because axioms, though dulcet to the
ear, rarely possess the strength necessary to shatter those higher, more
fortified emotional walls.
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