that is that we think of when you think of john milton. looked up on wikipedia and there's no mention of his blindness until way down, many paragraphs. and it's just mentioned in passing. i thought, wouldn't stephen love that? to have himself remembered for science and nobody would think of the fact that he was disabled. but what of his science? we don't know what will be remembered. will the no boundary proposal ever become part of mainstream of theoretical physics and cosmology? or will it just be an interesting beautiful proposal that has never had that much impact or acceptance. will people go on being troubled and walking around with the information paradox? will things like the invention of his, a -- around the year 2000. it seems to be sitting on the shelf now and stephen wasn't paying attention to it. what about things in that? will they be remembered? i think that his legacy definitely will be twofold. if nothing else. first, the excitement he has generated about science. and cosmology. when i attended academic competence that pre

john adams, when he had a conversation with thomas paine about drawing on the old testament in "common sense," thomas paine brushed it aside and said, "i got it from milton." this is an argument against how the bible was influential in the various ways, regardless of whether or not the people quoting it believed that the bible was the revealed word of god in a specific way. this is a quote from gordon wood, one of the most eminent american historians, specifically in the revolutionary era. he says it was the clergy who made the revolution meaningful for most common people, because for every gentleman that read a pamphlet and dealt in a week and elved into whig and scholarly history for an explanation of events, dozens of ordinary americans who read the bible who look to ministers for interpretation of what the revolution meant. the bible was part of the language. it was part of the symbolism and a narrative everyone knew. if everyone owned one book, this is the case in the 19th century, it was probably, if they owned one book, it was probably the bible. i am talking about the bible as used to wage war, used by patriots. in using the bible to wage any war