Since I'm confident that I'm not as smart as Newton, any discoveries I would have made would most likely have been much more minor in nature. I can't speak for you, not knowing you sufficiently.
If only we had devoted our lives to "true science".
I'm curious, why would you put that in quotes?
We would both be geniuses.
Only if we were geniuses to begin with.
That is a very nice fantasy. But unfortunately I never developed my mind to the same extend as Newton. Nor have I ever make any contributions to science. What a shame.
How about you?
I have one real regret about my life; while I majored in physics in college, I never completed my degree. This was entirely my fault (lack of discipline). Had I completed my studies, I might well have become a scientist.
I think it is a shame.
I'm curious, why would you put that in quotes?
I put that in quotes because people don't talk about "true science". They talk about science. Is Einstein's theory of relativity true? No, physicists know it is not true. It contradicts quantum mechanics. So the search is on for a better theory. Are theories ever proven in science? No. All you can do is collect data that supports a theory or contradicts the theory.
When you took a physics lab in college, did you ever state in your lab reports that you proved a theory? No, all you could do is test a theory by collecting data. You took several measurements with some degree of error and arrived at an average with some degree of error. Then you used a discrepancy test with some figure of error to compare the experimental results you obtained with the theoretical predictions. If the two calculations came within some tolerance with stated figure of error, then you could state the the experimental date supported the theory, but you never stated that the experimental results proved the theory. Inductive reasoning is never a proof. So it seemed odd to me that you wrote about "true science".
Only if we were geniuses to begin with.
Exactly. I was waiting patiently for you to say that. Geniuses are born geniuses. How do you explain that with science?