/sci/ - Science & Math

Why does /sci/ hate this man? Is it because he was an engineer?

is this true, /sci/?

The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly.One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain— then it is a mere questionof time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.