>"In Newton this island may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the species. From modesty, ignorant of his superiority above the rest of mankind; and thence, less careful to accommodate his reasonings to common apprehensions: More anxious to merit than to acquire fame: He was, from these causes, long unknown to the world; but his reputation at last broke out with a lustre, which scarcely any writer, during his own life-time, had ever before attained."
I've read in a schopenhauer essay that newton basically took robert hooke's work. considering leibniz also discovered calculus, I don't see what the world would miss out on without newton.
>>24815333I can't get over how subtly smug he looks in that portrait.
>>24815333If a Scotsman compliments an Englishman, you can assume that is is an accurate assessment, for they do not do so lightly.
>>24816376I sense Hume was embarrassed to be a Scot
>>24816345Yeah but be real, he is the only canonical philosopher you could hang out with and have a good time eating cheese and drinking. Every other philosopher is autistic, schizo, or autisto-schizophrenic. I think he’s a retard but his works always make me happy, his wholesome and grounded personality emanates through the pages like a comfy fire. A girl was bitching the other day about gaining weight and I said “what are you so worried about? Hume was fat.”
Why was he so racist bros, I thought he was above the follies of false assumptions...
>>24815333>>“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:>God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”>― Alexander Pope
>>24816476I mean but Hume was into men (allegedly) and if you're good looking enough (I'm pretty sure there's a lot of twinks on this board) he might try and cop a feel.
>>24818667>I mean
>>24818681I just woke up
>>24816315>Criticism of Newton's calculus>Schopenhauer also demonstrated a lack of understanding of Newton's mathematical innovations. A commentator on his work notes that Schopenhauer referred to Newton's invention of calculus as a mere "arithmetical confirmation," a remark critics have called "embarrassingly stupid" for underestimating its true significance. Lol
>>24818692nta but all he said nothing about newton's math but that he was a fraud concerning his contributions to physics
>>24816385Intelligent man
>>24816345He looks zesty as fuck
>>24819672He was
>>24815333He must have meant Newton's endeavours in alchemy, because his mechanics has been shown to be wrong.
>>24816476wasnt his whole thing like "You should understand that custom is just custom, but you should usually go with the flow of it, cause its usually aproximate enough, not always, but a lot of the time."
>>24816376Smith and Hume were Anglophiles and Smith was employed to teach Scottish oligarchs and their sons to speak with a London accent. Hume attempted to learn this accent but failed.Not exactly sure how you've managed to completely miss this part of their lives
