When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil de Grasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26. Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Isaac Newton is one of the most brilliant men who ever lived. He was born in 1642, and he discovered the laws of motion, the laws of electricity, an important part of our modern world. He was also the first person to discover that light travels in waves. However, his greatest discovery was gravity.

Most people think that it is Isaac Newton who discovered gravity. But this isn’t true. That honor goes to Johannes Kepler who spent years trying to figure out why the planets are set in their orbits around the Sun.

It was Kepler who came up with the idea that planets are held in orbit by something else. And it was this theory that Newton eventually proved.

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