Newton and the Apple Tree

One day Isaac Newton in Woolsthorpe, Linconshire was sitting in an apple orchard when an apple fell right in front of him. Newton grabbed his notebook and started writing his ideas of why the apple didn't just stay where it was. This little apple helped Isaac to explain why the universe was the way it was. However that is not all that made Isaac Newton one of the best scientists who ever lived. There are three reasons why Newton was such a great scientist:

• 1.Newton was good at math. He was so good only the intelligent elect could understand him.
• 2.Newton wrote 2 books to help the people understand the world around them. The books were called Opticks and Principia.
• 3.Newton relied on proof, something that most scientists, such as Aristotle, didn't do.
Isaac delighted in his surroundings and he did what many couldn't do, logicaly explain hte world--gravity moving of planets, light, and may other things. Isaac himself once said,"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." (Scientists Who Made History Isaac Newton, Paul Mason, Isaac Newton, quoted in Spence's Anecdotes.) Isaac was curious about the world around him and did something about it; he discovered things around him and tried to explain them.