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| Newton, Isaac (1643 - 1727) |
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| Isaac Newton |
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The saying, that the person become more humble and
modest, the further he looks into the mysteries of nature, proves
good at Newton. He has not only continued the work of Copernicus,
Kepler, Galilei and Huygens, but also combined it to a powerful
unit. Next to numerous other discoveries it was his deed to utilize
the physical laws of drop and movement onto the new astronomical
facts and to lead the proof, that it is the same power, which pulls
the falling apple to the earth and that holds the celestial bodies
in their path.
In the England of that time Newton was not a single
phenomenon, but simply the greatest of a whole series of magnificent
natural scientists, who were united Royal Society, founded in the
1662. He concluded his scientific work along with the words: "Being
and knowledge is a shoeless sea. The further we advance, the more
immeasurable it expands, which still lies ahead of us; every triumph
of the knowledge inherits hundred confessions of ignorance."
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| Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844 - 1900) |
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"Nietzsche philosophizes with the hammer. He thoughtlessly
demolishes old, as wrong regarded values, however at the same time
erects new values and ideals. Who must be a creator in both the
good and the evil, truly, must first be an annihilator and break
up values. "(Hans Vaihinger)
Who wants to value Nietzsche truly, must clearly
distinguish between the frame of his doctrines and his world of
thought in a further sense; the frame of his science is rooted in
the subjectivism and is met by all the objections, which arise against
this one. But Nietzsche was far more than a bare subjectivist. The
mental struggle and work of mankind is present in his extended and
movable personality and is experienced with all one's heart.
Nietzsche was a person, who "wants to create beyond
himself and thereby perishes" - as Zarathustra said. The dreadful
loneliness and the overwhelming weight of the fight, which the lonely
led against the old millennia ruling values, have consumed his powers
and after all let him, sunk into the beneficent night of insanity.
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| Plato (427 - 347 v. Chr.) |
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About Plato, a pupil and friend the Socrates, Goethe
wrote in his 'History of the theory of colors ("Farbenlehre"): "Plato
behaves to the world like a blessed spirit, who pleases to linger
some stretch of time on it. He does not intend to get to know it,
because he presupposes it by kindly telling it what he brings along
and what it so desperately needs. He penetrates into the depths,
more to fill them out with his being than to explore them. He moves
to the height, with the longing, to once again come hold of his
own origin."
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| Polo, Marco (1254 - 1324) |
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More than everything Marco Polo, born Venetian,
traveled China; almost always accompanied by his father Nicolo and
his uncle Matteo. In the year 1271 the adventurers of their second
travel to China started, which led them via Baghdad, Persia and
the highland of Pamir in the present Peking, where the emperor received
them friendly. By his order Marco Polo also visited great of the
Mongolian Empire.
Marco Polo was an excellent observer. With him and
his work a new age in the knowledge of the occident about the Far
East started. Nevertheless this great discoverer of the Middle Ages
was often laughed about and seen as braggart by his contemporaries.
Even in 1324, on his deathbed the priest still implored him to disassociate
himself from his numerous lies. Marco Polo passed away with the
remark to not have told at least half of the truth.
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