Paul Lowrance wrote:

That's like saying the Wright Brothers could not have invented the first heavier than air powered plane to fly under sustained control because they clearly did not understand certain laws of physics, lol.

Bad example. The Wright brothers were as different from Newman as anyone could be. They had superb knowledge of physics and engineering, and they filled their notebooks with page after page advanced mathematics equations and simulations that a modern-day graduate student would struggle to recreate on personal computer. Newman depends entirely on intuition. The Wrights were somewhat intuitive, but mainly analytical. They had various other sterling qualities, such as the fact that they were superb craftsmen, and they built equipment and prototypes with amazing speed. They build gliders, airplanes, and motors far more quickly than groups of the people who tried to replicate them for the 2003 commemorative flights were able to do it!

- Jed

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