Commentaries on Sir Isaac Newton

It does not suffice to say that Sir Isaac Newton was just crazy; no, he was completely insane. Anybody who was willing to force something underneath their eyeball to check if they were able to see has something seriously wrong with them, but there was something else about him, a characteristic even more bizarre that it should warrant him his own personal page in the DSM IV. This characteristic is - what I would like to call - “suicidal ambition”, for between the late 1600’s to the early 1700’s when the streets were ravaged by plague and war, and when the government was corrupt and oppressive, one man trying to find truth and explanations for the world was completely insane. There were many situations in which he could have been dragged off to some dusty old torture chamber somewhere, or could have had his throat slit in the dark, but thankfully (and luckily for him) he persevered against all odds and came up with revolutionary findings, one of them being the gravity equation for which this chapter of the book is dedicated. The reason why this equation is so world changing is because it represented more than just gravity, it represented the triumph of new knowledge over the old, as well as a new movement of thought (which holds an entirely different “gravity” altogether). This new movement of thought emphasized the distinction between science and religion, and urged people to ask questions about their lives. But it was difficult for people like Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo to inspire this new set of ideals because not only were they challenging some of the worlds’ greatest philosophers and scientists, such as Renee Descartes and Aristotle (who I guess turned out to have quite a few idiotic ideas mentioned throughout this book alone), but they were standing up against the two most menacing giants of their time, government and religion, who were together thrashing peoples’ minds with an iron fist. Despite these conditions, Sir Isaac Newton eventually would create the equation and - perhaps most importantly - people would be willing to read it. This marked the breaking point between the bonds of two previously inseparable topics, religion and science, and expanded the possibility of growth for each.