23-08-2024, 09:17 AM
1675 letter by Isaac Newton: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche