Sunday, September 30, 2007

Marty Peretz, "A Scientific Titan,” 5/25/07:
"Physics is now the lead science--I suppose with mathematics. I myself don't understand why it's so. But it is characteristic of the Arabs, who have almost no physicists to speak of, and of Brit low-level academics, to make their politics a shabby substitute for science.”

1 comment:

Diana said...

Oh how funny. According to physicist Lee Smolin (The Trouble With Physics) and mathematical physicist Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong) physics is in a rut, in thrall to string theory, which they claim is not falsifiable, therefore not science.

It seems Peretz is as informed about physics as he is about Israel/Palestine. What a twit.