Newton was obsessed with scientific research to the point of obsession. It is said that Newton once boiled an egg. He works while reading. He stupidly threw a pocket watch into the pot. When the water boiled, he lifted the lid and realized that he had cooked the pocket watch as an egg by mistake. On another occasion, a visiting guest asked him to evaluate a prism. Newton was immediately attracted by this prism that can be used for scientific research and replied without hesitation: "This is priceless!" " "The guest saw Newton salivating at the prism and offered to sell it to him, deliberately asking a high price. Newton immediately bought it with joy. When the housekeeper learned that, she said angrily, "Well, you idiot, you just have to fold the price according to the weight of the cup!" " "Newton once invited a friend to dinner, prepared for dinner, and went into the research room. My friend saw it, ate it, and left without saying goodbye. When Newton came out, he found that there was only leftovers on the table, thinking that he had eaten them, so he went back to continue his research and experiment. Newton was absorbed in telling a good story.

Ironically, Newton was a "prototype deist". The so-called "deism" holds that after God creates the world, he will let the laws of nature rule the world, and he will not interfere, and the world will run under the control of the laws of nature. Newton is holding this view of the universe, so Newton's explanation of things is the law of nature plus probability. Of course, he didn't pray for anything. Newton clearly stated in his famous book: He believed that celestial bodies moved because after God created everything, he also set various natural laws, such as the laws of motion. God pushes them first, and then the celestial bodies keep moving according to the law of "the movers always move", and everything happens naturally according to the laws of nature and probability. God will never do anything again.