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Rage for Order (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:16 PM Original message |
Sir Isaac Newton - Religious Fundy Nutjob |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. lol! Newton's bible-thumping-ness isn't news... |
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flyingfysh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. this was not unusual at that time |
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Rage for Order (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I agree |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Yah! Kant - what a crazy stupid fuck. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 11:24 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. They can coexist just fine |
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catzies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
4. A man of his time and a man for all time. I think it is possible he was both. |
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kurth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. That's ok. He got the physics right |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. More or less. More importantly, he got the math right. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Actually Leibniz would argue that he got the math right |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. LOL! |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. Newton was right about some things, wrong about others. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
9. Also primary obsession was alchemy. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 10:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. LOL! |
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freesqueeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
13. Science or Magic |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. He was also into alchemy and astrology IIRC. |
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pop goes the weasel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-18-07 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
16. Newton was not a fundy |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-19-07 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
17. Ever read Neal Stephenson's trilogy, The Baroque Cycle? |
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