TheSupafly 
Its hard to be the most brilliant person in recorded history, its bound to drive a person a little nuts.
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cognitivedissonance This doesn't quite get the scope of his crazy, which was simultaneously superhuman in grandiosity and scale as well as tragically mundane in every context. He died a virgin, and once he hit Parliament he refused to wear anything except red velvet, sleep in red bedclothes, had his walls painted red, his dishes and accoutrements all had to be red. Also, the actor here doesn't quite capture his persona, which involved a reportedly high pitched, nasal voice with a monotone drone.
Isaac Newton was the proto-Aspie, and in this day and age, he'd have dedicated his time not to inventing Calculus, defining physics or practicing alchemy, he'd be writing Sonic the Hedgehog/My Little Pony slashfics.
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baleen Roger Bacon seemed like a nice guy.
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memedumpster
BBC wins! In your face, Nova!
Incidentally, the Nova version is the exact same documentary with a different narrator and editing on the stock re-enactments.
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dairyqueenlatifah
I sadly can't watch this right now because I am at work. Do they discuss his end of the world prediction?
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401099-the-world- will-end-in-2060-according-to-newton.do
I never knew he went any crazier than that though.
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Anaxagoras
Oh look. Another religious wackjob mocking people who have differing (and correct) views.
Fuck Newton. Mean-spirited, small-minded jackass.
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Anaxagoras Fascinating documentary though. Thanks for posting it.
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garcet71283
Surprise surprise, a genius that is also nuts...not like we haven't seen that before.
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misterbuns
All that fuss over whose Pokemon is more powerful.
Imagine what he could have accomplished if he didn't have to bother with all that stuff.
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Jet Bin Fever
Ahh, no one gets a full deck of cards.
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cognitivedissonance FUCK YOU, JOHN MILTON KEYNES, RUINING ENTIRE CIVILIZATIONS WASN'T ENOUGH FOR YOU?!!
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