Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. A green elf climbed through George Ellery Hale's window and told him to get money from Rockefeller for the world's (then) largest telescope. Newton was a practising alchemist.
These men and what they personally believed are indeed fascinating, but irrelevant next to the work they left behind.
These men and what they personally believed are indeed fascinating, but irrelevant next to the work they left behind.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
