/sci/ - Science & Math

Sup /sci/

I was browsing the internet earlier and I wiki'd Isaac Newton out of boredom because I only heard about him by name (other than the apple falling on his head thing) and something irked me a little.

>Newton, although an unorthodox Christian, was deeply religious, and wrote more on Biblical hermeneutics and occult studies than on science and mathematics.

Then I went on to google this and apparently he was interested in alchemy, the so called Philosophers stone, solomons temple, biblical codes and propechys, etc.

You mean to tell me that his works of science and mathematics which developed much if not all of the advanced technologies of today was only his leisure activity?

Why did Newton, perhaps the smartest man ever to live, was so devout in all these occultish philosophy which would be deemed bullshit today by both the bright and the not so bright people.