February 20, 2005

The Fifth Sentence

I thought I would continue the meme I stumbled on reading jfleck's blog

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 123.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.


My entry:

So it is with Christianity.

In all honestly the closest book to me at this moment is a book called Parables of Kierkegaard, a collection by Editor Thomas Oden of Søren Kierkegaard's stories and short thoughts. I picked up this book after reading the section in the beginning of Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb about Niels Bohr. One of the things that strikes me about most of the major players in early 20th century physics is how well educated they were in other disciplines and took many cues from things such as philosophy. Most of the engineers, scientists, and coders I know do no such thing. Rather, they tend to pick one thing and repeat it incessantly. It strikes me as an interesting juxtaposition.

Posted by dmason at February 20, 2005 05:03 PM