Quote applicable to LNT/Hormesis/# Angels Able to Dance on Head of PinDebate

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Radsafe:

Since much of radsafe bandwidth recently has dealt with contentious debates about issues that ultimately 

go to the issue of "truth", I came across a quote today that could be applied to either side of any 

debate but it may be of interest to many:



"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so

even if the whole world disagrees with it."



-  Maimonedes



Since Maimonedes is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant philosophers of all time, and his most 

famous work was "Guide for the Perplexed" (1190) perhaps he has something to say to us today.





Stewart Farber, MSPH

FarberSA@optonline.net

[203[ 367-0791



PS: A brief biography of Maimonedes follows:



A contemporary of Averroes, also born in Cordoba, Spain, Moses Maimonedes (1135-1204) came from a 

prominent Jewish family. In 1148, when the Almohads conquered Cordoba and life became difficult for the 

Jews, his family moved to Morrocco, then Palestine, finally settling in Fostat (old Cairo), Egypt. 

Trained both as a physician and rabbi, Maimonedes became such a good doctor that he was appointed royal 

physician to the King of Egypt. As rabbi he became nagid, or head of the Egyptian Jewish community in 

Fostat.



... His most famous work, generally regarded as one of the great philosophical works of the middle

ages, Dalalat al-Ha'rin (Guide for the Perplexed, 1190), is an attempt to bring Judaism in line with Neo-

Platonic Aristotleanism as taught by al-Farabi (Abu Nasr, 870-950) and Avicenna.



bio by Daniel Kolak in Lovers of Wisdom

(Wadsworth, 1997) 









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