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To: RussP; doc30
"greatest scientist of all time"?

NEWTON???

please excuse my laughter: it assuredly isn't directed at Sir Isaac Newton.

I suppose you're of the school which considers Sir Francis Bacon's assertion "I have taken all knowledge to be my province" to be possible today, despite the fact that the sheer quantity (let alone the quality, density, accuracy, and precision) of available knowledge today is greater by several orders of magnitude.

ah, well... ignorance must have some kind of appeal - else far fewer would revel so brazenly in it.

97 posted on 03/10/2007 2:12:13 PM PST by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: King Prout

Who is or is not the "greatest scientist of all time" is obviously a matter of opinion, but Newton is widely considered to be just that that. You're welcome to disagree, but if you find it "funny," then you don't understand what he contributed to science.


100 posted on 03/10/2007 2:42:21 PM PST by RussP
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