This is about my previous question! Sorry, just tired!
People! Why would you go with their reasoning and insults, if you do not understand the true meaning of the quote???

Albert Einstein's assistant, saying that common sense tells us that the earth is flat, * meant that our common sense, sometimes deceive us!! After all, everyone knows that earth round, and still, when we look at the horizon, we feel that it is flat! I explain to you as a student in first class! it is even funny!

Common sense tells us that the earth is flat. This is not the case. And throughout the rest we believe what we said mind. Reason given us to serve us, to get the desired, but it is misleading. Reviewing his life, his experience can see that in the beginning, we plan, that is, use reason to get the desired when the same unsatisfactory result, we do not think that this is our way of thinking has led to this result.

This is about my previous question! Sorry, just tired!

Question

This is about my previous question! Sorry, just tired!
People! Why would you go with their reasoning and insults, if you do not understand the true meaning of the quote???

Albert Einstein's assistant, saying that common sense tells us that the earth is flat, * meant that our common sense, sometimes deceive us!! After all, everyone knows that earth round, and still, when we look at the horizon, we feel that it is flat! I explain to you as a student in first class! it is even funny!

Common sense tells us that the earth is flat. This is not the case. And throughout the rest we believe what we said mind. Reason given us to serve us, to get the desired, but it is misleading. Reviewing his life, his experience can see that in the beginning, we plan, that is, use reason to get the desired when the same unsatisfactory result, we do not think that this is our way of thinking has led to this result.

This is about my previous question! Sorry, just tired!

Answer

in order for the above sentence to make more sense replace the 'diameter of Earth' with 'circumference of Earth'

Answer

well, if one walks around the earth, the variation of altitude, measured in distance (up and down), will be significantly smaller than the one of the diameter of the Earth itself.
In science if you do not dare to doubt you're walking blind. Not the same case with religion.

Answer

Hi Maria, please believe nobody meant to offend you – no insults at all.
Actually you quoted Einstein's assistant traslated into English; as you see, his sentence may look as a common statement, with nothing particular to let us guess it was a specific quote; maybe some of us would have recognized it if in original German (not my case anyway).
What did you exspect us to answer, then? We could say whether we agreed or not and why; no wonder if we took earth shape as an exmple of how deceiving common sense is, since it concerned your question!
However, I told you: I'm not that sure common sense tells us so, there are many simple observations (I listed some) that should let you feel earth's not flat. And I also told you we have intelligence (meaning: critical anlysis of the results of careful experiments and observations; not just blindly following the mind, that finally would be a silly way to follow any belief we have) despite common sense.

Answers · 3

Still haven’t found your answers?

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn a language from the comfort of your own home. Browse our selection of experienced language tutors and enroll in your first lesson now!