December 25 - I forgot to say, "Happy Birthday"
"On this day, long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton. b Dec 25, 1642."
The above message was tweeted on Christmas Day by Dr. Neal DeGrasse Tyson. It has been re-tweeted over 62,000 times.
I think that it was disrespectful.
He forgot the "Sir".
So, Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton!
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Happy Birthday to a great math expert!
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Last edited by CockneyRebel on 27 Dec 2014, 11:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Oh, I had heard that some Bible-thumpers in the States got their panties twisted over something he said, but I didn't know it was something as innocuous as this.
Of course, if he actually was born on the 25th of December in 1642, that was when the Julian calendar was still in use, and his birthday under our modern Gregorian calendar is still a few days away.
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Also, according to Wikipedia ...
Regardless, we have much to thank Sir Issac for.
His cenotaph at St. Paul's Cathedral reads ...
So, here we have a person whose actions changed humanity's understanding of the universe and their place within it. We know who he was and what he looked like. We know who both of his parents were. And we know all of this because he was real.
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