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英倫翻譯圖文轉自http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/forum/20150330/36465670/GreatMindsDon'tAlwaysThinkAlike

Great Minds Don't Always Think Alike

科學先驅•不同凡響

In 1643, Isaac Newton was born into a poor family. Newton eventually paid for his schooling by cleaning wealthier students' rooms. Newton discovered that he loved science and math, though he was only an average student. Therefore, it was amazing that he completed a graduate degree at the University of Cambridge and then developed original scientific theories. He explained the movement of the planets and proved that white light is actually made up of all the colors in the rainbow. Most famously, Newton also identified gravity after an apple fell out of a tree and hit him on the head. He even contributed to a new form of mathematics, calculus, which allowed mathematicians to understand the nature of space, time, and motion.

1643年時，艾薩克•牛頓在一個貧窮的家庭出生了。牛頓最終靠著打掃家境比較好的學生的房間來支付他的學費。牛頓發現他愛上了科學與數學，雖然他只是個表現普通的學生。因此，令人驚奇的是，他居然能在劍橋大學完成研究所的學位並發展出原創的科學理論。他解釋了行星的運行，並證實了白光其實是由彩虹裡的所有顏色所組成的。牛頓最著名的是，他因為一顆蘋果從樹上掉下來砸到他的頭後而發現了萬有引力。他甚至促成了微積分這種新式數學，而微積分也讓數學家們了解到空間、時間以及運動的本質。