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Newton was a decidedly odd figure—brilliant beyond measure, but solitary, joyless, prickly to the point of paranoia, famously distracted (upon swinging his feet out of bed in the morning he would reportedly sometimes sit for hours, immobilized by the sudden rush of thoughts to his head), and capable of the most riveting strangeness. He built his own laboratory, the first at Cambridge, but then engaged in the most bizarre experiments. Once he inserted a bodkin—a long needle of the sort used for sewing leather—into his eye socket and rubbed it around “betwixt my eye and the bone as near to [the] backside of my eye as I could” just to see what would happen. What happened, miraculously, was nothing—at least nothing lasting. On another occasion, he stared at the Sun for as long as he could bear, to determine what effect it would have upon his vision. Again he escaped lasting damage, though he had to spend some days in a darkened room before his eyes forgave him.
-A Short History of Nearly everything

This is the first time ive herd Newton described like this

>> No.2260165

>Once he inserted a bodkin into his eye socket and rubbed it around just to see what would happen.

wtf

>> No.2260181

Gouging yourself is a sever symptom of forever alone.

>> No.2260183
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2260183

>needle in eye
OH SHIT NIGGAH YOU FUCKIN CRAZY!!

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you can't be that brilliant and not be crazy, i guess..

>> No.2261388

>upon swinging his feet out of bed in the morning he would reportedly sometimes sit for hours, immobilized by the sudden rush of thoughts to his head

you will never know how this feels

>> No.2261393

>>2261388
I know exactly how it feels.
Only shallow atheists will never know.

>> No.2261402

>>2261393
And the deep atheists will?

Hmmmm.....how do I become deep.......

>> No.2261405

>>2261393
0/10
trying too hard

>> No.2261413

>>2261393
lol

>> No.2261437

>>2261413
>>2261402
Sorry, I was wrong. This troll is sufficiently stupid to derail a thread.