Isaac Newton - Apples and Oranges

Newton's life was one that I found really interesting not just because of how a simple apple falling on his head lead to the great discovery of the universal law of gravity, but also because of the other factors that contributed to it. If it wasn't for the behavior of his mother, the bullies in his life, The Clarkes, or that little apple, we still might not have learned how we are able to stand on Earth without falling into space. And I think that the greatest contributor in Newton's life was that little notebook that he kept or his interest in philosophy. Natural philosophy, which he was interested in, required all of its students to keep a detailed journal of their observations and theories. So he bought a notebook and started doing this. I believe that by recording his observations and thinking like a philosopher he was able to question why that apple was falling straight and not in any other direction. That was not the first apple in the world that fell on the ground. Anyone else, before Newton, could have questioned it. But they didn't because they were not thinking like him. They did not questions things and actually pay attention to the little details in nature. Newton liked to simply sit and observe things and think carefully about them, just like philosophers. So he was able to question the fall of the apple and discover gravity.