When you judge people by modern standards
and they fail, presumably that is testimony to how wonderful things are now, right?
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Wed 13 Jun 2018, 9:10,
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hey, I don't give a shit
I assume everybody has deep flaws, it saves time
It doesn't bother me in the slightest that he copied a lot of his special and general relativity theories from ideas proposed by Lorentz, Mach and Gauss, and didn't have the grace to cite them in his papers and continued to insist they just occured to him a priori in the bathtub.
He was a cousin-fucker, though
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 13 Jun 2018, 11:04,
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