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I didn't know that...but it does make some sense, as Newton - according to historical reports - was anything but humble. A personality not unlike that cartoon baby in Trevor's avatar.
Mind-you, even Einstein had a dark side. My tutor told me a story about when he was a student of Astrophysics at Cambridge. He said that while he was translating Einstein's 'Theory of General Relativity' and earlier 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' from German into English he found some amazing pieces in the math...in that he had almost entirely used the work of Maxwell and Lorentz. No big deal, that's normal, BUT, the Germans never, ever taught 'The British' version of electromagnetism...the Germans had their own version which worked very well thank-you. Einstein always said that he was reading those works after hours and that his critics were not justified in their attack of his use of them...but there were other, annomolies which didn't add-up. Later, when the British wanted to get an official translation done of Einstein's works, my tutor said to save the one million pounds allocated for the transcription as it had already been done...but later, once it had been transcribed and released to the general public, the anomolies were corrected. He showed me his transcripts and that of the official ones, but for the life of me I couldn't see what the differences represented...GR is just to damn hard at the nuts & bolts level. But for him, at that time when he was a student, he said he walked around his room, campus and streets pondering why Einstein had done that. So his view on Einstein, which was originally that of a God, afterward was two-fold; the greatest Genius while at the same time being a compulsive liar...although Bohm, on the other hand, whom he worked with for many years, was that of a Saint.
Ergo my comment to him, "seems there's more politics in science than there is science"..."you better believe it boy-o" was his response.
I gotta retire and go and study I think.
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