Asanka Sayakkara reviewed Isaac Newton by Michael White
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5 stars
If I ever meet Sir Isaac Newton in person, I think I wouldn't like his personality. The way he used Flamsteed's observational data without giving due credit or appreciation, and the way he took revenge from Leibniz for co-inventing Calculus appear distasteful to me. After all, we all are human and every "great" human including Sir Isaac Newton is prone to human fallibility. So, I make peace with this great man and move on.
"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 sea shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me" - Sir Isaac Newton.