Issac Newton was a weirdo.

From A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson:

"Once he inserted a bodkin - a long needle of the sort used for sewing leather-into his eye socket and rubbed it around ""betwixt my eye and the bone as near to the backside of my eye as I could"" just to see what would happen. What happened, miraculously, was nothing - at least nothing lasting."

"Newton was a decidedlt odd figure-brillant beyond measure, but solitary, joyless, prickly to the point of paranoia, famously deistracted (upon swinging his feet out of bed in the morning he would reportedly sometimes sit for hours, immobilized by the suden rush of thoughts to his head), and capable of the most riveting strangeness."

"An analysis of a strand of Newton's hair in the 1970s found it contained mercury - an element of interest to alchemists, hatters and thermometer-makers but almost no-one else - at a concentration some forty times the natural level."

"As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it for twenty-seven years."

At 80 years of age, when asked what he thought his greatest achievement had been, he said it was the fact he had been able to remain a virgin.

Weirdo.