(December 17, 2017 at 1:57 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(December 17, 2017 at 1:54 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Newton was an ass. Don't even get me started on Tesla.
One has to weigh the assness next to the size of lasting contribution.
^^This. I mentioned Michael Faraday in another thread. He was, by all accounts, one of those annoyingly fanatical 'primitive' Christians. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop using electricity.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson