Sir Isaac Newton

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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Sir Isaac Newton was born in England around January 1642.  Hannah, his mother, wedded again in 1644, and his grandmother took care of him.

Sir Isaac Newton went to School, and showed no ability in studying. His mother took him out of school and Newton tried to manage his mother’s properties, but at this, he was also sadly useless.

When he was, twenty years old he entered Cambridge College in 1662. At the age of twenty-three Sir Isaac Newton received his B.A. The Great Plague had swept through out England forcing the university to shut down.

When he was at the Woolsthorpe farm, an apple fall from one of the trees and inspired his question into the theory of gravity. When Cambridge reopened, Sir Isaac Newton became a member of his former College. His thoughts were new and circulated among the foremost mathematicians of the time.

Sir Isaac Newton argued that white light was actually made of multiple colors and built the first reflecting telescopes which in 1672, he gave away to the Royal Society. Sir Isaac Newton identified the theory of movement and the gravitational law in the universe, to forecast the exact motion of the stars, and the planets around the sun. He published his works and ideas in two books.

Sir Isaac Newton considered himself a deeply devoted Christian. He based everything in his life on God. When the other scientists were firmly entrenched in the theory of evolution, Sir Isaac Newton told the scientists that God created man and everything on the earth.

In 1703, Sir Isaac Newton became president of the Royal Society and held that position until he died. In 1705, Sir Isaac Newton was knighted for his scientific work.

Sir Isaac Newton was 85 when he died and his remains are in Westminster Abbey