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| Gott, der große Ingenieur. ('The Ancient of Days' by William Blake.) Douglas Adams' character, Slartibartfast the Magrathean, seems to be based on the 'Ancient of Days'. He is the chief designer of planet Earth, and is especially proud of designing the fjords of Norway. |
Gott ist der große Ingenieur, means God is the great Engineer or దేవుడు మహా యాంత్రికుడు.
Conversely, it also means the great engineer is God and it is this
latter interpretation that I prefer. Becoming a great engineer is the
closest to the idea of God that one can hope to attain.
No amount of rituals, chanting mantras, or meditation on Brahma[n] is
going to get anyone closer to God. Understanding how the world works
using the methods of science and applying that knowledge with
engineering to make the lives of people around us better, is the way to
godliness. To make real changes for the better, it is necessary to
understand both the physical world and, more importantly, the social world, and it is these issues that I want to explore in this blog.
Personally, I believe the trio of great electrical engineers: Michael Faraday, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse
have done so much to ease humanity's existence that they deserve all
the honor that is unnecessarily wasted on the many false, made up,
imaginary Gods who amount to no more than a Russell's teapot.
