Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
Reminds me of this story from This American Life that they replayed recently about a retired physicist diagnosed with Alzheimer's who loses the ability to read a clock:
Shoutout to Dr. Kathryn Weiss's great conference talk on Curiosity's Flight Software Architecture. I know of at least one other high availability robotic system that took a lot of inspiration from it.
On the other hand, we have sufficiently large number of people believing that Trump actually won this year - enough for it to be a potential political issue. I wouldn't count out someone getting killed over this.
So, the relative merits and dangers of "censorship" should be evaluated against this. The bar for the censorship being "potentially greater risk" is reasonably high.
"Not everyone liked him" is sort of understatement. We can accept and celebrate his contributions without pretending that the dislike for Newton was all about some mild unlikability.
A go (囲碁, not ~lang) master once taught me how to get my subconscious to reveal moves it knew were bad. We played a quick game, cleared the board, and then played the same game over again. The moves I remembered immediately were the right ones. The moves where I hesitated were the wrong ones. He was easily 20 stones better than me but my subconscious knew, at least, every time I made a mistake against him, even in complex situations.
Repetition is under-appreciated today. I think it's something we lost when we gave up typewriters. I'm not saying we should go back to ink and paper in all cases but I do think there is an aspect we're missing out on, like someone whose fitness deteriorates when they start driving everywhere, or who doesn't know where anything is now that they have a GPS-enabled smartphone.
Tao Te Ching