{"id":1419,"date":"2026-04-16T15:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:41:58","slug":"unos-versos-de-alexander-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/2026\/04\/16\/unos-versos-de-alexander-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoy poes\u00eda: unos versos de Alexander Pope sobre Newton y otros m\u00e1s …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Pope<\/a> (1688-1744), considerado uno de los mejores poetas ingleses del siglo XVIII, escribi\u00f3 un epitafio, ahora famoso, para Isaac Newton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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La Naturaleza y sus leyes estaban envueltas por tinieblas;<\/dd>\n
dijo Dios: “\u00a1Sea Newton!”, y todo cobr\u00f3 luz y claridad.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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(Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night;<\/em><\/dd>\n
God said ‘Let Newton be’ and all was light<\/em>.)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Al que otro poeta ingl\u00e9s, John Collings Squire<\/a> (1884-1958), agreg\u00f3 luego el pareado:<\/p>\n

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No dur\u00f3 mucho: el grito del diablo “\u00a1Eh,<\/dd>\n
sea Einstein<\/a>!\u201d, restaur\u00f3 el status quo.<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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(It did not last: the devil, shouting \u201cHo.<\/em><\/dd>\n
Let Einstein be\u201d restored the status quo.<\/em>).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

A lo que, finalmente, el f\u00edsico te\u00f3rico\u00a0Jagdish Mehra<\/a> (1931-2008) a\u00f1adi\u00f3 los versos:<\/p>\n

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Dios hizo rodar sus dados, para gran consternaci\u00f3n de Einstein:<\/dd>\n
\u00a1sea Feynman<\/a>!\u201d, y todo fue claro como el d\u00eda.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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(God rolled his dice, to Einstein’s great dismay:<\/em><\/dd>\n
Let Feynman be!” an all was clear as day<\/em>).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

J. G. Taylor, La nueva F\u00edsica. Alianza Universidad, Vol. 82. Alianza Editorial. Madrid, 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Pope (1688-1744), considerado uno de los mejores poetas ingleses del siglo XVIII, escribi\u00f3 un epitafio, ahora famoso, para Isaac Newton: La Naturaleza y sus leyes estaban envueltas por tinieblas; dijo Dios: “\u00a1Sea Newton!”, y todo cobr\u00f3 luz y claridad. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2604,4215],"tags":[3151,1443,1643],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biografias","category-divulgacion-cientifica","tag-anecdotas","tag-divulgacion","tag-historia-de-la-fisica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7930,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/fisicateleco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}