Sir Isaac Newton did not have the best childhood in the world, nor the best love life, but he laid the foundations for scientific thought and also developed infinitesimal calculus, something that is of no use to philologists and historians but is to the rest of humanity. So, thank you, Newton, for calculus and for having been one of us.

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