Comments by "Phil Davenport" (@phildavenport4150) on "TED-Ed" channel.

It would be even more of an impact if he had. Imagine the progress in science if we had had those extra 150 years of knowledge to play with. To say nothing of what could have been achieved if he had not dismissed the coming objections of relativity, of which he was well aware. If only he had not wasted all that energy on bloody alchemy, and writing abusive letters to all and sundry.... And without the urgings of his friend and publisher Halley we may not have even had his Principia to play with. Surely, the greatest intellect ever to grace this planet.
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