[Ichneumon]

Newton was one of the brightest men who ever lived, and his work is brilliant, but he built a cosmology out of a few data points. He no more observed the workings of the cosmos than Darwin witnessed dinosaurs mating.

He also wasted a great deal of his talents on alchemy, and an idiosyncratic theology.

[js1138]

Newton probably had Asperger's Syndrome.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.