I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.