Sir Isaac Newton had on his table a pile of papers upon which were written calculations that had taken him twenty years to make. One evening, he left the room for a few minutes, and when he came back he found that his little dog Diamond had overturned a candle and set fire to the precious papers, of which nothing was left but a heap of ashes.
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Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English polymath. Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. Read more on Wikipedia →