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The fact that you couldn't pick a different person as an example makes for a very weak assertion.
by joquarky 1y ago
The fact that you couldn't pick a different person as an example makes for a very weak assertion.
- jibal 1y agoThere's no evidence that they couldn't pick a different person. There are quite a few other persons and some other commenters pointed out some of them.
- dboreham 1y agoNewton.
- BurningFrog 1y agoNewton pretty much invented several fields of science, like Classical Mechanics, Optics, Calculus, and Gravitational Astronomy. He started out as a novice in all of them. That Alchemy failed to pan out as a science doesn't make him a crank in my book. You can't know Alchemy is impossible until you try pretty hard.