At the age of 26, Newton was awarded the Lucas Professorship of Mathematics, a seat that symbolizes academic achievements and supreme honors not only in the UK but also in academia around the world.
At the age of 46, Newton was elected to the British Parliament.
The British Parliament is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and consists of three parts, namely: the King, the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
King: The head of the British Parliament is the British monarch and, as is customary, does not vote.
House of Lords: Most of the members of the House of Lords are elected by way of appointment, divided into two types: clergy and secular.
Clergy refers to senior clergy in the Anglican Church, such as archbishops and bishops.
Secular parliamentarians are members of the nobility, such as hereditary nobility, life nobility, royal nobility and appellate aristocracy (senior judges, attorney generals, deputy attorney generals, etc.).
However, members of the House of Lords are prohibited by law from being elected from among the members of the House of Commons.
House of Commons: Directly elected by voters on the basis of a majority representation system in a small constituency, each term of office is up to 5 years. So, Newton was also a member of the Lower House of Parliament.
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At the age of 47, Newton was already a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and the members of the Academy were only Anne McClellan, John Wilkins, Jonathan Goddard, Robert Hooke, Christopher Lane, William P. Boyle, Newton, Darwin, Einstein and a few others.
At the age of 53, Newton was already the director and superintendent of the Royal Mint, and became a Justice of the Peace for his outstanding achievements until his death.
At the age of 60, Newton was president of the Royal Society, the highest scientific institution in the United Kingdom, the oldest and uninterrupted scientific society in the world, and served for 24 years. He is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
At the age of 84, Newton's dying physician Voltaire said: "Sir Isaac Newton confessed to me that he was a virgin when he was in his hospital bed. ”
It can be said that in that era, Newton was definitely a world-class cattleman. But why did such a wonderful man not have a woman marry him, and why was he still a virgin until he died?
In fact, Newton had two short "love histories".
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At the age of 23, Newton studied at cambridge university, because of the plague on campus, the school holidays, so he came to his uncle's house to live temporarily, and often walked with his uncle's cousin, who also admired his knowledge and talent.
At that time, the two of them had the initial opening of the love sinus of "Lang riding a bamboo horse and going around the bed to get green plums".
To this end, he once wrote in his diary: "This is a lovely, beautiful, intelligent woman, and very interested in what I have taught, and an extraordinary woman." It would be nice to have her help, to solve many of my difficult problems, and to work with me! ”
As a result, Because of his shy personality, Newton had not yet taken the initiative to express his love to his cousin, so he received the news that the plague had been eliminated and reopened at Cambridge University, so he hurried back to the school and immersed himself in scientific research, and since then he has thrown his cousin from his hometown to the cloud of nine clouds, and has never sent a few words to his cousin in his hometown.
So, after waiting for a few years, the cousin mistakenly thought that Newton had no feelings for him and had to marry someone else.
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Later, Newton met a beautiful girl and quickly fell in love.
The two held hands, shoulder to shoulder, sitting on the grass, looking happily at the blue sky and white clouds.
Who knows, Newton's thoughts actually flew to the world of mathematical research, only to see him slowly grab one of the girl's fingers and suddenly stuff it into the pipe, and the girl cried out in pain.
It turned out that Newton had mistaken the girl's finger for a pipe strip.
The girl's cry instantly woke Up newton. So Newton hurriedly apologized to the girl: "Ah! Dear, forgive me! I know, I can't do it. It seems that I should fight a single stick for the rest of my life! ”
In the end, the relationship between the two ended.
Later, Newton never fell in love again, and has been "guarding himself like a jade" until the end of his life.
In this regard, some people are quite confused, is Newton not afraid of loneliness, why does not a woman take the initiative to pursue him?
In an article in The Life of Newton, it is written:
He certainly wouldn't be alone, because the world of science is full of fun and pleasure.
To be honest, science is far more popular than any woman, and playing science is more enjoyable than playing with women.
The orgasm of getting a result is intense and lasting, not only pleasure, but also a great sense of self-identity, far from the boundless emptiness and loneliness after a few seconds of shivering...
I remember the American mathematician and father of computers, Ulam, once introduced his friends "Father of Computers" and "Father of Game Theory" to Von Neumann:
"I know a mathematician who sleeps with his wife only on prime days: the beginning of the month is not bad, 2, 3, 5, 7; but by the end of the month it is more sad, first the primes become thinner, 19, 23; then there is a big gap, until 29 ..."
Hypatia, the world's first female mathematician who never married, once said, "I have married the truth!" ”
In fact, there are many world-class mathematicians, physicists, musicians, painters, philosophers, etc., who are lifelong unmarried, such as: Schopenhauer, Descartes, Adam Smith, Plato, Van Gogh, Beethoven, Voltaire, Nobel, Copernicus, Kant, Hans Christian Andersen, Engels, Nicai, Ho Chi Minh, Pascal, Chamberlain, etc., Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci, Taylors...
It seems that these world-class cattle people have regarded "research in various fields" as their lifelong partners, which does not need the "other half" in life.
There are even jokes that these cattle people are all traversers from the future and are likely not allowed to have sex with the past.
According to media reports, some Japanese people have studied the lives of 280 scientists in the world and found that most married scientists' creativity dries up quickly, while single scientists can maintain efficient creativity until the age of fifty or sixty.
Could it be that marriage can dull people; studying mathematical physics too deeply can detach one from their physiological needs?
At the same time, the British philosopher Bacon once said: The best works, the greatest sentiments must come from unmarried or childless men.
The most common claim, though, is related to his mother.
Newton's mother, Hannah, was still pregnant with her when her father died of illness. Therefore, Newton after birth is more dependent on his mother than the children of ordinary families.
However, when Newton was 3 years old, his mother abandoned him and remarried to an old man who was about 30 years older than himself, Nabas Smith, and it was not until he was 11 years old that Newton returned to his mother's side, and this unfortunate past also became a pain and resentment buried in his heart.
This can be found in part from two of Newton's early notebooks preserved at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Morgan Museum in New York.
One of them reads: Burn down my parents, surnamed Smith, along with the house... Willing to die, but also want others to die.
Therefore, more people speculate that Newton's strange personality and the idea of lifelong non-marriage are likely to be hurt by his mother.
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