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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Much Did Newton Really Know About Heat?
It's almost a question of how big of a leap, how many leaps have been taken in science that go from mutant to Einstein. We sometimes in a compressed version of history think that not much. I wonder as a scientist, how much you load in from age five about this world in order to be able to conceive of the world of ideas that push that science forward. You mentioned the railroad and all those kinds of things that might be fundamental to our ability to invent even when it doesn't directly obviously seem relevant.
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