Sir Isaac Newton, that is.
"N" had me stumped. I was going to be lame and use "nap" or "nothing" because teachers MUST have some clear-your-head-down-time after being responsible for all the little humans all day long, but then, as I was on my hands and knees in my garden in the dirt and chicken poop fertilizer my husband got today, I asked my biology major son what he thought "N" should be. Right about the time I asked him this, I thought of the Nuremberg trials.
Great, I thought. More history!
"No," said he. "Newton." And since I have a shortage of science topics, I agreed.
We recently studied Newton's Three Laws of Motion, and what struck me the most about him is not that he had a great mind-- because he surely did, but that he had guts. Much of what he discovered, and could prove scientifically, was very out-of-the-box. Some of it went completely against what had always been believed.
And, he was a Christian. A serious Christian. He wrote Bible commentaries along with his science stuff. He was a great man.
"N" had me stumped. I was going to be lame and use "nap" or "nothing" because teachers MUST have some clear-your-head-down-time after being responsible for all the little humans all day long, but then, as I was on my hands and knees in my garden in the dirt and chicken poop fertilizer my husband got today, I asked my biology major son what he thought "N" should be. Right about the time I asked him this, I thought of the Nuremberg trials.
Great, I thought. More history!
"No," said he. "Newton." And since I have a shortage of science topics, I agreed.
We recently studied Newton's Three Laws of Motion, and what struck me the most about him is not that he had a great mind-- because he surely did, but that he had guts. Much of what he discovered, and could prove scientifically, was very out-of-the-box. Some of it went completely against what had always been believed.
And, he was a Christian. A serious Christian. He wrote Bible commentaries along with his science stuff. He was a great man.