Show threadPeter GutscheJan 13, 2025

… Indeed when I made a pilgrimage to his grave during a 1996 ski vacation in Austria, I discovered that his freethinking didn’t go down well in his home village either: … the small town of Alpbach has buried their most famous citizen ever in a quite modest grave right at the edge of the cemetery.”

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Peter GutscheJan 13, 2025

I can’t resist quoting this passage from Max Tegmark's book „Our Mathematical Universe“ (Penguin Books 2014) about the great physicist #ErwinSchrödinger:

„After getting Max Planck’s job as professor in Berlin, one of the most prestigious posts in the world, he gave it up because he wouldn’t tolerate Nazi persecution against his Jewish colleagues. …

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