[Profpat]

Originally Posted by neutralino

I think there may be some truth in this, but most of Newton's religion took place in his later "crazier" days (like, when he took up alchemy, and when he decided to gouge himself in the eye, for some strange reason!).

By the way, I'm not putting down any of Newton's work here: he was a genius. To be made a fellow of the royal society, and hold the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge before he was 30 is testimony to that!

I didn't know that Newton tried the King Lear thing,
maybe he was trying to take the "beam" out of his eye that we all seam to have. I trust he didn't blind himself.

Geniuses do seem to do strange things at times; like one running around Athens naked, screaming Eureka, another eating his own excrement, another smelling really bad because he refused to bathe.

It's stories like that which makes me glad that I am not one of them. Though I have done my own crazy things on occasion.

Best to you, ( a platitude, but sincere )

Pat

P.S. I like your smilling avatar.