Waiting on the other apple to drop.

He's only staring because he's concerned you don't understand the gravity of the situation.  He's concerned he doesn't either. Image courtesy of Wikimedia commons.

Issac Newton was born on December 25th, 1642. Funny enough the man could tell you all sorts of things about being gifted. He was born and raised an insecure boy, owing to parental abandonment ( his mother remarried to a minister of all the ironic things), something that would leave a mark on his psyche the rest of his life. His life was relatively uneventful, and found being a farmer's son incredibly dull so a relative recommended him to a university (Trinity College), where he lived on a sort of work study program. While trinity college essentially taught some of the the same things you could have heard from Aristotle  centuries earlier, by this time the heliocentric model of the solar system was fell founded and regarded in upper level European academic circles. this set something off in newton and he began to imagine the universe as a giant machine, impersonal and obeying rules, not unlike a clock. It is a viewpoint physicists today still cling too with reverence. It was relatively early in his life that newton started coming up with the ideas that would start define mathematics and physics for the next century, it was during these initial college years. Returning to trinity though as a fellow, he was required to become an ordained priest, something he was loathe to do on account of certain theological revelations that would continue his legacy.

Newton seemingly revolutionized every field he put his hands to in his time at Trinity. He is credited with independently developing the techniques of differential and integral calculus (quite independently of Leibniz). He invented most of the principals of dynamics and mechanics in physics (the rules for regular moving objects). He is credited with contributions to optics (remember those cool prisms?) and other amazing things. these things helped newton pass the time until his later life where his theological ideals caught up to him.

Newton was a prodigious writer of theology as well. He wrote numerous tracts on the literal interpretation of the bible, and works criticizing and doubting the trinity as a religious object. Newton's views were so radical and heretical it is easily questionable as to whether or not he even believed in the divinity of Christ at all. We do however know that he did as a part of his physical revelations believe in some sort of god who had created it. Newton was also an extreme occultist,