[JA]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

I think this man would have to be the smartest person to have ever walked the planet followed closely by Tesla.

Sir Issac Newton gave us the reflecting telescope and hence we call it a Newtonian Telescope...for that alone he deserves the top shelf but his gravity guides our space craft today...and I get very upset when you get the occassional relativist making out he was wrong and I have even seen stuff where they make fun of him...very uncalled for.

It is a pity that he spent so much of his life involved with religion as who knows what he could have produced if he had not wasted so much time with religious pursuits...

Maybe it was just that: faith, that illuminated and drove him.

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JA