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Reminds me of this Sir Issac Newton quote: > Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

• pmoriarty 8y ago
  Hearing this coming from Newton is surprising, given his infamous feud with Leibniz over which of them invented calculus.
  • Jedd 8y ago
    Not really. People can have ideal ideas that don't match their own lived reality. And the Newton / Hooke feud is probably more interesting and relevant, than the Leibniz one (given that was entirely of Newton's making).
• 77pt77 8y ago
  Do you have a source for that? That does not sound like Newton ar all.
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    Maybe mastery doesn't imply usage
  • argd678 8y ago
    If you google “Newton” Google attributes it to Issac Newton on the side bar, seems like it must be wrongly attributed unfortunately. Thanks for correction.
• idlewords 8y ago
  This is a Howard Newton quote. I think you're confusing it with "F = ma". https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/07/18/tact/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/07/18/tact/