In Westminster Abbey there is a gravestone and upon that gravestone are words penned by Alexander Pope for the soul who rests beneath it. In part, the words read:
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"Nature and nature's laws lay his in night
God said, let [name of deceased] be! and all was light....
Let mortals rejoice
That there has existed such and so great an
Ornament to the human race."
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ANSWER ME MY GATHER FRIENDS, WHOSE LIFE, THESE WORDS, PENNED FOR HIS END?
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I was going to guess a pope but...
This is fun but how long till the answer?
Readers: if you're not familiar with S.I.N., his biography is quite interesting: He was born on Christmas morning. His sickly father died three month's before Isaac's premature birth. Isaac was first just going to study literature until a school yard fight where he bested a higher ranked student and vowed that he would beat that fellow student academically as well as physically. Imagine, a school yard skirmish led to one of the world's greatest thinkers. When he was 15, his mother declared him to be a farmer and forced him to go sell produce in the market everyday. Instead Isaac had a servant go to the market while he visited the apocethary of a certain Mr. Clark, we he spent all his days reading and studying. By the time Isaac Newton was 27 years old, he had already laid the foundations that would revolutionalize science!
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