The less familiar the basis for your opinions, the more daunting it is to make them intelligible to others. So much context to explain.
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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His principal passion, though, was for investigation. His work consumed orders of magnitude more of his time than his polemical activities.
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Gauss really is a tragic figure. Had his beloved wife survived, he might have become a vastly more optimistic, open-hearted man.
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