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.

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... The story of the falling apple has became part of the mythology that surrounds Newton, as Robert Hannah's 19th Century portrait shows.

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 ...

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 ...