Karl and his daughter Jenny Marx. Margate, March 1866
Jesus Christ is not responsible for Tomás de Torquemada. Karl Marx is not responsible for Iosef Jughashvili. The Vienna born woman scientist Lise Meitner, who first split the atom, is not responsible for the nuclear bombs, not even Otto Hahn who stole her science and got the Nobel. Moses de León’s poetry collected in Zohar is not responsible for the Sabbatian orgies or the fascist cults of Chassidim. John Adams is not responsible for the credit default swaps. Ideas treated as a tool for enslavement, murder and impoverishment by the selfish goons of history will outlive the abuse. So are the names of the heroes.
Lise Meitner
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Ernest Rutherford split the atom, around 1919. Well before Lise
This was nice Ben, now what I think is even more interesting is the fact that this Benatlas might be the same one who leaves very interesting remarks on one Nassim Talebs Facebook forums.
Hi my name is Charles and I thought it would be fascinating if you were one and the same guy because I found this page purely accidentally reading up on Lise Meitner’s work. Good luck!
Nice to meet you Charles. I am the same person, alas Taleb banned me again from his idiotic forum.
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