• Question: who do you prefer albert einstien or iscac newton

    Asked by to Laurence on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Definitely Albert Einstein.
      Newton was a great genius, but he is famous for having been very anti-social, not very nice to his peers… He allegedly stole data from the royal astronomer at the time, he went on legal and credibility crusades against other scientists of his time (like Hooke and Leibnitz), etc, etc, etc… He famously said ‘I only saw so far because I was standing on the shoulders of giants’, but apparently that was referring to Hooke, who was accusing him of stealing his ideas and who was a very short man. 🙂

      Einstein was an amazing human being, a great philosopher, an unbelievable scientist, and an extraordinary communicator. He was a bit stubborn, but who wouldn’t like Einstein?

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