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Should we discard achievements made by unlikable people?
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 (December 17, 2017 at 1:54 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Newton was an ass. Don't even get me started on Tesla. Edison could have invented 3 phase AC electric power except he couldn't do the mathematics involved. I had it in sparky school 35 years ago, and managed to 'get it' but fortunately my subsequent career path never intersected that stuff. 
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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