{"id":17869,"date":"2021-01-04T19:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:33:48","slug":"the-pretension-that-some-of-us-are-better-than-others-is-not-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/01\/the-pretension-that-some-of-us-are-better-than-others-is-not-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"the pretension that some of us are better than others [is not] a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>particle physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-03655-w?utm_source=Nature+Briefing\">Jack Steinberger<\/a> (1921-2020)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Steinberger, who fled Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1934, was uninterested in prizes and often reiterated his belief that \u201cthe pretension that some of us are better than others [is not] a good thing\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>particle physicist Jack Steinberger (1921-2020) But Steinberger, who fled Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1934, was uninterested in prizes and often reiterated his belief that \u201cthe pretension that some of us are better than others [is not] a good thing\u201d. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17871,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions\/17871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}