Einstein wrote a paper once with 3 references, all his. Einstein was never accepted from the academic community in Europe when he started his academic career. there are two books from a guy from UCL, Prof Arthour I. Miller - Science and Technology Studies, he is American and his office is huge and full, I mean full like everywhere, of books> Eistein - Picasso and 'Insights of Genius' he says exactly what you are discussing now.. this is a discussion that shakes the foundations of science as founded in teh 19th century based on the experiments' pillars> if you conduct the same experiment and you get the same result it is true. Today, after a century and more, nobody believes this any more.. we match the theories according to what we want to prove as everything is so subjective. some times we are given colour glasses to wear and after a while we forgot that we there are there, permanently.. I dont feel that wisdom exists any more.. ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle