"Don't talk about heroes based on success or failure, but not on the merits of later generations." Mention of famous people in history, accompanied by flowers and applause.
However, "gold has no feet, no one is perfect", behind the flowers and applause, the great man also has a dark side. Take the famous British physicist Newton, for example, the stories that happened to him are deeply rooted in people's hearts. But what few people know is that Newton also had a lot of ugly things.
Admittedly, Newton made important contributions to the world of physics, but in his dealings with the people around him, the shortcomings of his personality were also vividly displayed. When the light of the giants of science faded, the flesh-and-blood Newton was revealed to the eyes of the world. A sensitive and suspicious antisocial personality, plagiarizing the scientific research of others without feeling ashamed, Newton, who is high above, finally fell off the altar.
Sensitive and suspicious antisocial personality
Admittedly, Newton was a world-renowned physicist, but high IQ does not mean high emotional intelligence. Newton was unfortunate that he had not had a complete family since childhood. But Newton was fortunate that his birth mother and stepfather gave him a lot of patience and attention.
But in the face of his family, Newton did not have the slightest empathy. What he did bore many similarities with many of today's tragic antisocial personalities.
After the quarrel, he wanted to kill his mother and father:
Newton's sensitive and suspicious personality had early warning signs when he was young. As a child, Newton lived with his stepfather, who was not as caring for him as his own child. But in Newton's mind, everything the stepfather did was done for others to see. In corners that no one else could see, the man would try to hurt himself.
But in fact Newton's stepfather was a wealthy priest who enjoyed a good reputation in the local area. Out of love for his wife, he also gave Newton's grandmother some financial support. Unfortunately, Newton was blinded by his own paranoia. Instead of accepting his stepfather's good intentions, he hated his birth mother. This character flaw filled Newton's life with misfortune.
Newton was never able to accept the fact that his mother had remarried to a pastor, and in fact he was able to go to school and have food, all thanks to part to the help of his stepfather. In his diary, he recorded in detail the various "evil deeds" of his stepfather and birth mother, and killed them.
Today, Newton undoubtedly had an antisocial personality. The stepfather was an innocent man, and without his help, the mother would have difficulty even maintaining a normal living expenses. It was not that Newton did not understand this, but he refused to accept it.
After the death of his stepfather, Newton's life plummeted. Not only did he drop out of school at home, but he also had to shoulder the burden of the family. Fortunately, Newton had already laid a good foundation for learning before this, which made it possible for him to become a physicist later.
It can be said that the stepfather changed Newton's fate, but Newton returned only hatred and curse. Such behavior is very different from the image of a personable scientist in people's minds.
A vain man who is crazy about worshiping gold
"Look at money as dung, and look at wealth as floating clouds." In most people's minds, great people like Newton don't take money too seriously. In reality, however, Newton not only valued money, but also fell into the circle of gold worship. Newton wanted fame and fortune more than scientific research. In the face of all kinds of temptations from the outside world, it is not a strange thing to lose your own heart.
Newton, obsessed with alchemy:
Anyone with a certain knowledge of chemistry knows that it is very difficult to convert one element into another. Even if the conversion is successful, the cost is far greater than the value of gold itself. But in Newton's later years, he had an unusual attachment to alchemy.
At that time, Newton's salary was £500 a month, which was a real high-income group. But at this time, Newton was addicted to stock trading and lost the money in his hand. If Newton wasn't confident enough in his intelligence, he might become a crazy gambler trying to turn his fortunes around by gambling again and again. But he went down the path of alchemy, abandoning science and truth.
At that time, alchemy existed only in people's mouths and did not become a system. Newton started with chemistry and began his own path of alchemy. Soon, researchers who followed Newton discovered that his so-called chemical research was nothing more than an illusion. But at this time, Newton could not listen to anyone's opinion.
He tried to refine different metals together, including mercury, a substance that is harmful to human health. Mercury has a certain effect on people's nerves, which makes Newton's thinking more and more paranoid. Newton not only lost his proud intellect, but also his healthy body. And the source of all this is nothing more than his frenzied vanity of worshiping gold.
A hypocritical scholar who plagiarizes and plagiarizes
Not long ago, Greg Semenza, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, was exposed to academic misconduct, which triggered a hot discussion around the world. One cannot imagine a great scientist who cannot guarantee even the most basic integrity of scientific research.
However, scientific research ability cannot be equated with personality, and although Greg Semenza has made up a large amount of data, his Nobel Prize-winning research results are real. Newton made similar mistakes, making data that he copied others' observations, although he did not make up data.
Gravity stems from "plagiarism":
Newton lived in an era full of opportunities. With his clever mind far beyond ordinary people, he put forward many important theories. What limits his scientific progress is the availability of experimental data. But rao, newton's direct use of Framsted's observations is not a glorious thing.
At that time, Newton had already made great achievements and had a high status in the academic community. Many people are really angry about his plagiarism. Flamsteed discovered that Newton was using his data and tried every means to defend his rights. However, in the face of the disparity in academic status, all this is in vain.
Newton once said that he was able to achieve what he has achieved today because he stood on the shoulders of giants. But from another point of view, the deep meaning of his words is that there is no fear of plagiarism.
Until Flamsteed's death, there was no wait for Newton's apology. People now know that gravity is all right, but they don't know that behind this theory there is Framsted's credit.
The two-sided life of the scientific giant Newton
In the eyes of ordinary people, the great scientific giant Newton was a figure standing at the top of the pyramid, but his various ugly deeds made him fall off the altar.
But for Newton's various actions, people do not need to blame too much. Every ugly thing he did was not too big a thing to put on ordinary people. Newton, though less perfect than one might think, was not an evil man either.
He has a sensitive and suspicious antisocial personality, so he has always had difficulty reconciling with his mother and stepfather. But fortunately, he did not put his ideas into practice, and did not lead to a tragedy that will be regretted for the rest of his life. But he still didn't know how to love, so he never married and spent his miserable old age alone. This is the sorrow of Newton's family, and it is also his personal eternal regret.
He was extremely eager for money, but "a gentleman loves money and has a way to get it", although he was addicted to alchemy in his later years, but this was after all his own efforts to create wealth. On the other hand, some scholars today defraud scientific research funds through academic fraud, which is a complete moral corruption.
Newton's birth meant that his research would have been difficult to create for him. But his poor life from childhood made him insecure. The pursuit of money is nothing more than a manifestation of wanting to make yourself stronger.
He used other people's data recklessly, but admittedly, this greatly improved Newton's scientific research efficiency. Some plagiarists don't think for themselves, they just want to make a profit. Newton's plagiarism was intended to confirm his views more quickly and help him improve the efficiency of his research. This behavior, while not worth advocating, is very different from Greg Seyman's academic misconduct.
Knowing Newton's ugly deeds, this scientific giant also seems more and more real.