Newton's character is down-to-earth, taciturn and a little withdrawn. Newton's outstanding achievements were attributed to his diligence, and he said modestly that his discovery was made by his predecessors. He likes reading and thinking on weekdays. Someone asked him, "Why can he make so many contributions to science?" . He replied, "This is the result of thinking day and night. His concentration on scientific research has reached the level of selflessness. One day, Newton was reading and boiling eggs. When he was ready to eat, he found that he was cooking his own broken watch. Another day, one of his friends was eating. After the dishes were set, he said he would get a good bottle of wine. The result is "gone forever." "I went into the study and didn't come out for a long time. My friend was impatient, so he ate it himself and left. When he returned to the dining table, he saw the bones on the plate and said, "I have already eaten." "He even forgot his friends. But when he was alive, there were two famous sayings. 1) If I see farther than others, it is only because I stand on the shoulders of giants (if I see farther than others.
I don't know how important I am to the world. For me, I am like a little boy, playing by the sea, looking for smoother pebbles or more beautiful shells from beginning to end, but the truth like the sea in front of me has not been discovered. I didn't know that I might appear in the world; But for myself, I seem to be just like a boy.
Play by the sea
Divert my attention.
Occasionally find a smoother pebble.
Or a more beautiful shell than ordinary.
Newton's biographer commented, "This man is really a lovely child." But this kind of comment can only be used to describe his grumpy appearance. Newton spent a lot of time playing with light as an adult. He bounced off the light with a mirror, refracted it into a rainbow, blew soap bubbles to study the chromatographic bands crawling on the surface of thin bubbles, collected feathers to observe the sun and made telescopes to observe comets. Newton said to a guest before he died at the age of 84, "I don't know what the world thinks of me, but I think I am a child." I stood playing by the sea and found a smooth stone and a beautiful shell from time to time, but the sea of truth surged quietly in front of me, completely unexplored by the world. "
From several things, Newton's personality characteristics are shown: smart, good at analyzing and solving problems; Know how to get the maximum result with the least effort; Very down-to-earth, pay attention to discipline, and have a unique way to do everything. Advantages are strong understanding and innovation ability, good at collecting information, analyzing and judging things. The disadvantage is that it pays too much attention to dogma and authority and demands too much of others.