*grabs popcorn*

>>8804620
Is this Fry?

Brilliant. Who wrote that?

Ya dude, Shakespeare's not playful at all

>>8804790
Ye, old Willie's just way too serious you know.

>feynman

>>"My son is taking a course in philosophy, and last night we were looking at something by Spinoza and there was the most childish reasoning! There were all these attributes, and Substances, and all this meaningless chewing around, and we started to laugh. Now how could we do that? Here's this great Dutch philosopher, and we're laughing at him. It's because there's no excuse for it! In the same period there was Newton, there was Harvey studying the circulation of the blood, there were people with methods of analysis by which progress was being made! You can take every one of Spinoza's propositions, and take the contrary propositions, and look at the world and you can't tell which is right."

Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

>>8805042
>progress
Also Newton's reasoning has a lot of baggage, it's almost unreal.

>>8805042
>scientism
Why do people compartmentalize themselves intellectually nowadays? Scientists hate philosophy, writers hate science, etc. It's nauseating. It used to be that most scholars were polymaths to some extent but now no one wants to look beyond their bubble.

>>8805042
And this is one of the reasons I stopped liking Feynman.

>>8805071
Misinterpreting Adam Smith and division of labor. Oh wouldn't it be lovely if we could just learn everything but we can't because ideology so we have to become really segregated and tribal in our work life and hate each other.

>>8805071
'writers hate science'

wtf i hate writers now

OP MUST be stephen fry, it shows all the signs of the modern english twat. Only confusing thing is that that list of ubermenschers isnt all gender queers and turbodykes. At least he threw louis armstrong in there

>>8805071
Polymaths were universally idiots, Anon. The greatest dogmatists of them all.

One doesn't have to be ignorant of a subject to reject it.

>>8805078
And he's still a genius.

>>8805826
No he's not

>>8805800
I like Stephen Fry's twattiness. What's wrong with him? He's a perfectly good twat.

>>8805832
He's no Gore Vidal.

>>8805042
he's right. Spinoza is ridiculous

>>8804620

desu when it comes to overrating "pleb" authors you could do a whole lot worse than Wodehouse