Comment by srean
9 months ago
His childhood was quite emotionally traumatic. I can imagine severe abandonment wounds given his situation.
Not only would he have felt abandoned, when his mother quickly remarried after his father's death, he could actually see the distant steeple where her mother had to relocate after her marriage - source of affection and emotional connect just tantalizingly out of reach.
That might explain his behaviour.
And to top it all off, that dang apple hit him on the head
Newton - "the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall or with an apple." — Byron
A calculus fit to compute on, White light and a head to drop fruit on, A mind to absorb it, And soar into orbit — That's all that it takes to be Newton. — Gina Berkeley
My favorite:
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be!
And all was light.
-- Alexander Pope
Is that so ?
I have to email hn@news.ycombinator.com about it. Those Apples are just too freaking expensive to throw around like that, Dang.