[Billthedrill]

Outside his field of expertise Einstein was catastrophically ill-informed, as a couple of books on philosophy and politics proved. Hawking is a brilliant physicist. Period.

The first was we were in danger of weapons of mass destruction and the second was that Iraq was somehow to blame for Sept. 11.

Bush did not use first statement to justify the Iraq intervention. By itself, it is a true statement. The second is simply false on both accounts.

[kipita]

Great analysis! The parts can never be the whole and can only be respected as parts. The whole can never be understood by the parts.