# How could someone like Newton believe in irrational things

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**Created:** [April 16, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-someone-like-newton-believe-in-irrational-things/784540 "2017-04-16T02:43:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-someone-like-newton-believe-in-irrational-things/784540/3 "2017-04-16T02:56:13Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> Riiiight. That’s why the high school atheist has come up with scientific accomplishments that dwarf Newton’s, right?
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> I keep telling people, you can’t trust Christian scientists like Mendel and LeMaitre. Listen to atheists like Lysenko, because you KNOW they have no ulterior motives or hidden agenda.

but is Newton that big a scientific giant

someone made the claim before that Newton wasn’t known in the scientific world until the 1980s with the rise of the internet

not even Einstein was aware of him, is this true?

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