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I agree very much with your sentiment, but that quote by Newton is actually far more mean-spirited than you think. It was Newton making a huge burn about Hooke
by Fede_V 12y ago
I agree very much with your sentiment, but that quote by Newton is actually far more mean-spirited than you think. It was Newton making a huge burn about Hooke, one of his main scientific rivals, who was actually very very short.
Newton was possibly the greatest intellect that humanity ever produced, but he was not a nice person.
- skj 12y agoApparently that is not so cut and dry. According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants#References_during_the_sixteenth_to_nineteenth_centuries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_gi...), the letter with this statement was written at a time when they were on good terms.
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