I imagine meeting Freud or Napoleon would be far more intimidating than meeting Einstein or Isaac Newton.
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The worst that could happen with the first two is mental or physical annihilation the second two is that you might feel stupid because they can do math.
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dunno, I don't think it's that simple Einstein and Newton were both into deep spiritual stuff I guess Einstein of the more hippie variety, but Newton definitely dabbled with dark arts (as you do, when there is no 4chan to participate in)
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wew: "While still an undergraduate student at Cambridge, Newton carefully slid a blunt needle into his eye socket and leveraged it against the back of the sclera, distorting the shape of the lens and creating patterns in his vision that he systematically recorded in a notebook.
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Although jabbing a needle in ones eye is the act of a madman, there was method behind Newton’s apparent madness: he understood that his own observations of optics and the behavior of light depended on the fidelity of the instruments he relied on"
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