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Reminds me of this Sir Issac Newton quote:

> Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.



This is a Howard Newton quote. I think you're confusing it with "F = ma".

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/07/18/tact/


Do you have a source for that?

That does not sound like Newton ar all.


If you google “Newton” Google attributes it to Issac Newton on the side bar, seems like it must be wrongly attributed unfortunately. Thanks for correction.


Maybe mastery doesn't imply usage


Hearing this coming from Newton is surprising, given his infamous feud with Leibniz over which of them invented calculus.


Not really. People can have ideal ideas that don't match their own lived reality. And the Newton / Hooke feud is probably more interesting and relevant, than the Leibniz one (given that was entirely of Newton's making).




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