The less conventional-minded you are, the less it probably seems to you worth bothering even to try to express your opinions.
Newton really took notice of his contemporaries only when he believed them to be attempting to usurp credit for his own achievements.
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Or attempting to impede him in his pursuit of those achievements -- as happened with the unfortunate (and legitimately aggrieved) Flamsteed.
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Newton was jealous of his priority; he was vain and prideful, too. He was not content to refute his rivals, but needed to humiliate them.
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