Students walk out during Pledge, recite own version

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

While I agree with you for the most part, I think that there is more original thought around than you ascribe.

queequeger's summary of Einstein and Newton are quite accurate. Almost everything they came up with was existing information put together in a different perspective. I believe it was Hilbert who so noted why a weaker student deserves so much praise. "He did the work'. Why are new ideas so hard to come by? So many have this massive collection of information. But it is the true genius who can merge known fact into a new perspective. So many great ideas are really nothing more than "Oh, yeah . . . ."

It is probably the largest jig saw puzzle ever attempted. Everything is there for us all to see. But which pieces can interconnect?

If what Einstein and Newton discovered was so radical, then conventional science would have rejected it completely. Why persecute Galileo? What he concluded - a perspective using existing knowledge just too radical for conventional thought - was too radical for others.