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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Isaac Newton a Good Scientist?
Newton's father died before he was born, and his mother eventually remarried a man named Reverend Smith whom Newton did not like at all. He had huge resentment about that, his whole life. A little bit of trauma in childhood may be a complicated father-son relationship can be useful to create a good scientist. "We can see gradually this young man's mind focusing and coming to grips with deeper questions"
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