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Yes he was an insufferable asshole. And he's significantly responsible for our modern world with its ability to sustain billions more humans at a higher quality of life than any king had in the 1600's.
I always try remember that when I encounter intelligent people with no social skills. You don't know if you're dealing with just an asshole, or an asshole with a gift of immense value.
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Well, and from landed gentry, so he had the time and money to fuck around, and get away with being a prick
That would be "fossil fuels", Alex. I have no idea what you're getting at. Unless you're one of those who thinks the space race is responsible for creating computers or something along those lines, in which case don't even bother responding, my eyes can only spin back in my head once.
They mean the codification of Newtonian Gravity in a mathematical theory, which like, for all the terrible shit he did, that's the one good thing that he definitely did do
Which the latter applied engineering from that did create essential technology for keeping people alive and with that, increase population size