(April 10, 2015 at 12:32 am)Rhythm Wrote: We also discuss their failings, their misdeeds, their mistakes. Nobel was a weapons manufacturer, for example. The prizes were initially (so the story is told) a way to diminish personal regret.
Do you really want to consider a god as you consider a man....have you thought this through?
Not to nitpick, but Nobel was the creator of dynamite for use in mining. The story goes that he felt regret that because it was unstable and was responsible for so many deaths that he felt the need to start the prize.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
