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Sir Newton discovered the law of gravity only after seeing an apple falling from the tree. Was he not going to toilet since childhood?
 
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Though he was genius, his habit of using diaper did not go even when he was grown up.
 
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I think the critical difference was that the apple hit him on the head.
 
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What a disgusting thread! I'll keep it going by pointing out that he was "standing on the shoulders of giants" so maybe someone was getting hit in the head after all.

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Originally posted by Stan James:
I think the critical difference was that the apple hit him on the head.



It is amazing how hitting someone on the head can improve thinking.
 
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Originally posted by Greg Charles:
What a disgusting thread!



Newton is responsible for this
 
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Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
Sir Newton discovered the law of gravity only after seeing an apple falling from the tree. Was he not going to toilet since childhood?



Things might have changed from that time...

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Things might have changed from that time...


Filly agree......
Color of that apple was black and according to topologists, Newton's head was comparable to football......
 
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standing on the shoulders of giants

- I think he was making fun of his rival Robert Hook (or was it the other way round)?
 
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Isaac Newton was one of the very few human beings that justifies our existence. Otherwise most of us are idiots who's right to even live is questionable.

Newton will always be more important than Jesus or ANY other "religious" figure.

Even for atheists he was as close as you can get for a person to communicate with the diety and back to mortals.

He was "A Magician of Many Parts"

So Mote It Be!
 
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Hey Tony, can you recommend any book on his life?
 
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Originally posted by Tony Alicea:
Isaac Newton was one of the very few human beings that justifies our existence. Otherwise most of us are idiots who's right to even live is questionable.


One of the very few Or One of the many

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From what I've heard, Newton was, in the tradition of all great thinkers, a right proper lunatic, although some people believe it may be down to the large amounts of mercury found in his body after his death. According to this page:


Newton continued on however, remaining the humble professor, but with increasing absent�mindedness. Friends laughed at him when visiting his home when they saw the sight of his front door. He had cut two holes in his front door, one for a cat and one for the cat's kitten. Often he would wander off from dinner guests after forgetting what day it was or after his thoughts had drifted away upon mathematics.
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Finally, Newton spent the remainder of his life and career tackling mathematical problems that had long baffled other mathematicians. Often solving these problems in a matter of hours, he would send the answers anonymously to his peers, such as Bernoulli as a form of professional humor.



Apparently he also kept many of his discoveries secret for decades before publishing them (he only published Principia Mathematica because Halley badgered him into it).
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