Isaac Newton: his discoveries ushered in a new world, unimaginable even by the most daring thinkers of the time. Buildings with hundreds of stories, millions of horseless carriages capable of traveling at 80 miles per hour while the passenger listened to music from a magical disc made of a glass-like substance, flying machines that crossed the Atlantic in a matter of hours, colorful paintings whose moving figures represented reality thousands of miles away, boxes that fit in a pocket and made people on the other side of the world talk. He discovered that the natural system was written in the language of mathematics. The heart of God’s creation was a universe like a soulless clock.
