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TlalocW

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Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:04 AM

Sep 2012

Einstein didn't believe in magic, had a great imagination, and is at least as important as Newton in the realm of science.

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Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer? [View all] xchrom Sep 2012 OP

To be brilliant, you have to believe it magic. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #1

Disagree TlalocW Sep 2012 #2

Not magic, literally, but the magic of the natural world. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #8

No, they extended conventional science DavidDvorkin Sep 2012 #9

To be brilliant, you have to believe it magic. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #10

Nope. DavidDvorkin Sep 2012 #11

We can both be right, you know. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #12

This will make you smile. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #13

And the point of this is? HopelesslyLiberal Sep 2012 #3

This superficial article.... RobertoRoberti Sep 2012 #4

Yes. nt bemildred Sep 2012 #5

You mean people in the 17th century didn't fit into 21st-century pigeonholes? Amazing. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #6

"Photograph"? LOL! Aldo Leopold Sep 2012 #7

Yup. Igel Sep 2012 #14

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