You know him for the apple and gravity, but Sir Isaac Newton had another, far more esoteric passion—biblical prophecies. Yes, the father of modern physics was also a devoted reader of sacred texts.

While apples do take the podium when it's about the theory of gravity. We've all read the tales of how Sir Isaac Newton penned the theory of gravity, and the trivia around it is well-known.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON:Oh get me down ... began to make his ground-breaking discoveries about gravity.' And with this apple, well not this apple, the original's a bit mouldy by now but with an apple.

Isaac Asimov wrote a lot of sci-fi novels, and Foundation manages to reference a lot of the author's work with the presence of a single character.

The Lincolnshire home of scientist Sir Isaac Newton is to reopen to the public ... It is claimed that while in the garden, he observed an apple falling from a tree that led to his theory of ...

The Apple logo, one of the most recognisable symbols in the world ... Many have linked it to the story of Adam and Eve’s forbidden fruit, while others suggest it was inspired by Isaac Newton’s ...

Sir Isaac Newton was on a lifelong quest to discover ... Newton, in general, is known as the nonpareil of the apple tree anecdote which led him to formulate concepts like motion, calculus, and ...