Issac Newton

Issac Newton was born on Christmas Day，1664 in a tiny village. His mother，who had just been left a widow， wished her son to grow up to farm the land. But Isaac never showed interest in farming. He was much happier repairing clocks or making mechanical toys. Astronomy， too， fascinated him and he would spend hours at night watching the stars and noting their movements.

When Isaac was twelve， his mother sent him to King's School， Grantham. often he was at the bottom of the lowest class. But one day， he was bullied by a big boy. Isaac pounced on the bully， thrashed him soundly and rubbed his nose against a wall. He also decided to beat the bully in schoolwork. In a short time，he rose to be the top boy of the school and at the top he stayed until he left.

Afterwards， his mother brought him to the farm but often he could be able to slip away and pore over some books of science.

One autumn night he was found trying to measum the force of the gale by jumping first with and then against the wind， and noting the length of his jump. His mother， being disappointed， sent him to the Cambridge UniversitY.

Newton proved to be a brilliant mathematician， so brilliant that he invented a method of calculation which has ever sincebeen used by every kind of scientists.

Although he was one of the wisest men， he felt that he was never too old to learn. He felt that he knew but very little. Themore he learned， the better he saw how much there was still to be learned.

When he was a very old man， he one day said， \"I seem tohave been only like a boy playing on the seashore. I haveamused myself by now and then finding a smooth pebble or apretty shell， but the great ocean of truth still lies before meunknown and unexplored.\"It is only the very ignorant who thinkthemselves very wise.\"