Lol it doesn’t matter what did he know he knew less physics lol
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
What was it Isaac Newton said about standing on the shoulders of giants?
KTJ_microbes@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Who cares what some loser who didnt know about black-body radiation says. /s
Lumidaub@feddit.org 18 hours ago
He was quoting (allegedly) Bernard of Chartres, thereby standing on his shoulders, interestingly.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 16 hours ago
He was slashing one of his colleagues, Robert Hooke, who was shorter than Isaac.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 15 hours ago
I try to bear Old Isaac in mind when I meet arrogant and unpleasant but intelligent teens.
It’s very easy as an adult to be very annoyed by them, short with them, and/or to feel an obligation in some way to “socialize them better”
But you don’t know which of them have an insight in their brain that unlocks the proverbial Warp Drive.
Zefram Cochrane
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’s the trick. None of them have all of the pieces. We’re a social species. All of our efforts are collective. We use our combined brainpower to make these breakthroughs.
The first person crossing the line gets all the credit, because our society is obsessed with credit and patents. And then it freezes the advancements for the length of exclusivity, until we can all finally start working on it together again. It’s stupid and inefficient. We need to stop teaching these individualism myths.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 14 hours ago
“By the time I was your age I’d saved enough money to move into an apartment with no room mates, and I had enough money left over to buy a car.”