Ask HN: How Newton did so much without tea or coffee?
3•upxx•26m ago
How did Newton, lacking the stimulants that fueled the productivity of so many later great minds—from caffeine-driven mathematicians to nicotine-powered physicists—maintain the relentless intensity required to reshape mathematics and physics?
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bigyabai•12m ago
Divine motivation is one possibility. A lot of his later life was particularly... driven, largely into secret societies and meaningless gematria studies.
bigyabai•12m ago