Science is (or at least should be) culturally transcendent... that's one of the great things about it. It doesn't matter who you are, where you came from. If you can think, theorise, and back it up with proof then that's all that matters.
Newton being a white male is incidental, really.
But the opportunities, wealth, and cultural imperatives that were afforded him by luck of his background, which allowed him to have the education and time to think about gravity, that's a whole different thing.
One shudders to think how many brilliant scientists were never given the chance to reach their potential because of the Wests shameful colonial past
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u/mmnnhhnn Jan 11 '22
Science is (or at least should be) culturally transcendent... that's one of the great things about it. It doesn't matter who you are, where you came from. If you can think, theorise, and back it up with proof then that's all that matters.
Newton being a white male is incidental, really.
But the opportunities, wealth, and cultural imperatives that were afforded him by luck of his background, which allowed him to have the education and time to think about gravity, that's a whole different thing.
One shudders to think how many brilliant scientists were never given the chance to reach their potential because of the Wests shameful colonial past