The Sins of Isaac Newton
I just came back from a delightful vacation where I reread The Baroque Cycle. The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels published in three volumes Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World in the genre of historical fiction about the rise of natural philosophy, important developments in economics and politics during the enlightenment. It is insanely ambitious, imitating literary styles from the era. It is insanely detailed. One of its major characters is Isaac Newton, both in his roles of the greatest natural philosopher ever, and as the master of the Mint, reforming the financial system in England.
Through out the books, references are made to a list of sins that Isaac Newton kept. In this list, he detailed every sin he ever committed. Curiously, the real documents including this list has been found by historians, and published on the internet. Check out the real list of Isaac Newton's sins here.
From Isaac Newtons memoirs:
"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."