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01-08-2012, 06:15 PM | #1 |
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Isaac Newtons confessions discovered
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1190714.html
Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity, revolutionized optics and co-invented calculus, but as a teenager he saw himself as a sinner. Brain Pickings found a list of confessions that the pious genius wrote at age 19, and it's equal parts endearing and disturbing. On the one hand, the lifelong virgin seemed to be worried about every little thing, including "Making pies on Thy day." But there's a darker side to these private confessions as well, including the fact that he admits to "Striking many" and "Punching my sister." The confessions were digitized as part of The Newton Project, an ambitious attempt to make accessible all of Newton's writings, from the groundbreaking math that made him famous to the alchemy and mysticism of his later years. It's a vast trove, so don't be surprised if we share more interesting stuff from the writings of the man many consider the world's greatest scientist. Here's the list: 1. Using the word (God) openly 2. Eating an apple at Thy house 3. Making a feather while on Thy day 4. Denying that I made it. 5. Making a mousetrap on Thy day 6. Contriving of the chimes on Thy day 7. Squirting water on Thy day 8. Making pies on Sunday night 9. Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day 10. Putting a pin in John Keys hat on Thy day to pick him. 11. Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons. 12. Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command. 13. Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them 14. Wishing death and hoping it to some 15. Striking many 16. Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese. 17. Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer 18. Denying that I did so 19. Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it 20. Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee 21. A relapse 22. A relapse 23. A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper. 24. Punching my sister 25. Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar 26. Calling Dorothy Rose a jade 27. Glutiny in my sickness. 28. Peevishness with my mother. 29. With my sister. 30. Falling out with the servants 31. Divers commissions of alle my duties 32. Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times 33. Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections 34. Not living according to my belief 35. Not loving Thee for Thy self. 36. Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us 37. Not desiring Thy ordinances 38. Not long [longing] for Thee in [illegible] 39. Fearing man above Thee 40. Using unlawful means to bring us out of distresses 41. Caring for worldly things more than God 42. Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors. 43. Missing chapel. 44. Beating Arthur Storer. 45. Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter. 46. Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne. 47. Twisting a cord on Sunday morning 48. Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday |
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01-08-2012, 06:19 PM | #2 |
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that's a pretty good idea
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01-08-2012, 06:26 PM | #3 |
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newton and leibniz didn't co-invent calculus. they both developed different methods independently.
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01-08-2012, 06:27 PM | #4 |
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Why don't you call arianna huffington and let her know mooney
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01-08-2012, 06:28 PM | #5 |
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so he was pretty neurotic huh
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01-08-2012, 06:28 PM | #6 |
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it would be long distance, that's why. and i'm scared of the telephone.
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01-08-2012, 06:29 PM | #7 |
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01-08-2012, 06:33 PM | #8 |
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billy joe is a girl!
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01-08-2012, 07:01 PM | #9 |
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he reminds me of this lesbian i know
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01-08-2012, 07:11 PM | #10 |
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he barely looks human with all that powder on his god damn face
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01-08-2012, 08:03 PM | #11 |
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Ha ha he died a virgin!
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01-08-2012, 10:04 PM | #12 | |
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01-08-2012, 10:26 PM | #13 |
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maybe his sister left the kitchen
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01-08-2012, 10:36 PM | #14 |
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This Isaac Newton guy doesn't sound like much of a free thinker. Never even got laid, and beholden to the opiate of the masses.
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01-09-2012, 01:57 AM | #15 |
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Moody today
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01-09-2012, 03:16 AM | #16 |
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These are Ike's confessions
Just when he thought he said all he could say His chick on the side said she got one on the way These are Ike's confessions Man, he's thrown and he don't know what to do I guess we gotta give part two of Ike's confessions If we gonna tell it then we gotta tell it all Damn near cried when he got that phone call Ike's so throwed and we don't know what to do But to give you part two of his confessions |
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01-09-2012, 11:29 AM | #17 |
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um. every serious historian of science is already well aware of newton's extreme religiosity. he probably spent more time contemplating theology than physics
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01-09-2012, 12:23 PM | #18 |
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Wayne Newton's confessions would be a better find.
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01-09-2012, 04:57 PM | #19 |
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galileo probably would have rather not have been convicted of heresy for suggesting that the earth revolves around the sun and that biblical quotations should not be used as a basis for science.
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01-09-2012, 05:01 PM | #20 |
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moody not mooney
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01-09-2012, 05:03 PM | #21 |
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if galileo was so smart how come HE didn't invent gravity, huh
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01-09-2012, 05:05 PM | #22 |
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01-09-2012, 05:06 PM | #23 |
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01-09-2012, 05:15 PM | #24 | |
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completely incomprehensible to me as in i can't comprehend it he saw the word neurotic and just had to not only quote green day but get a picture of their singer which makes sense in that if you were going to choose just one member you would pick who sang and presumably wrote the lyric but i don't follow even having the idea let alone executing it and i can't believe that the image is hosted on napster.com which really shouldn't even exist |
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01-09-2012, 05:27 PM | #25 | |
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01-09-2012, 06:22 PM | #26 |
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i bet most of the board would have gotten it without the picture
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01-09-2012, 06:28 PM | #27 |
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Dookie was def. in my early CDs/tapes, along with nevermind, Aerosmith get a grip, and weird al food album
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01-09-2012, 08:28 PM | #28 | |
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and of course, the whole earth-around-the-sun thing is traditionally ascribed to copernicus, a catholic canon |
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01-09-2012, 08:56 PM | #29 | |
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01-10-2012, 11:51 PM | #30 |
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I'm a big fan of #28
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