Footnote Physicist

          “An intelligence that, at a given instance, could comprehend all the forces by which nature is            animated and the respective situation of the beings that make it up, if moreover it were vast            enough to submit these data to analysis, would encompass in the same formula the movements of            the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atoms.  For such an intelligence           nothing would be uncertain, and the future, like the past, would be open to its eyes.”           – Pierre-Simon de Laplace I           “God does not play dice.”           – Albert Einstein II           Determinism  is a facet of  mechanical philosophy  all too oft...