I am, of course, talking about Isaac Newton.
Isaac Newton is the smartest person ever to have lived. I don't think it really can be contested, if you're looking at results, anyway. He was a detective, figuring out how the universe really worked. It is hard to put into writing how important he was, but without the things he did, math would be deficient and physics would be non-existent. Since this is an AP Comp. blog, I should try to come up with a comparison for writing, but I don't think there is a single writer that was close to being as influential as Isaac Newton. The closest is probably Shakespeare, but if he'd never existed we would only miss out on bad comedy and lame tragedies written in boring non-rhyming verse.
Isaac Newton: much better than Shakespeare. Much better than Jesus, too.
Isaac Newton: much better than Shakespeare. Much better than Jesus, too.
Don't overlook the rhyming couplets, which Shakespeare used rather frequently, you know, to close those monologues-spoken-only-by-important-characters-and-in-sonnet-form-no-less. But I suppose you're right, the most known and loved stories of the English language are "bad" and "lame" and "boring" because it's not like Shakespeare was one of the first widely read and celebrated Jon Stewarts or Jonathan Swifts or anything. You know, "Sticking It to The Man" in ways that "The Man" is too ignorant to recognize. Nope. We don't like that at all. We also certainly don't ever use phrases coined by Shakespeare himself. Turns out he doesn't matter at all. Oh, right. You just don't like him and dislike = doesn't matter in teenspeak.
ReplyDeleteStill though, your primary point was, as far as I can tell, to celebrate Sir Isaac Newton. In that endeavor I should have to agree with you. Newton was a G. An intelligent, accomplished G who forever impacted the human race. There's no doubt about that.
Disclaimer: I don't really care for Shakespeare that much myself. I just couldn't resist snarking response because I know you'll appreciate it.