Some of the paragraphs, ie. the first and second, are really good. Some others, aren't. >Physicist Richard Feynman voiced the feelings of many a self-absorbed

Some of the paragraphs, ie. the first and second, are really good. Some others, aren't. >Physicist Richard Feynman voiced the feelings of many a self-absorbed scientist when he wrote a book titled, What Do You Care What Other People Think? Did he? I finished the book a few days ago, and there aren't really anything self-absorbed about it. >Newton never wrote a memoir, but if he had, he probably would have called it I Hope I Really Pissed You Off, or maybe, Don’t Bother Me, You Ass. What does this even mean? From the article itself, it sounds like Newton didn't want to socialize, not that he wanted to piss people off. >He had come into the world on December 25, 1642, like one of those Christmas gifts you hadn’t put on your list. I.. what? Surely, for a parent to get his/her child is a present indeed. (I might misread this, but gifts I don't put on my list are gifts I do not want!). >They certainly weren’t close—in all the writings and scribbles Isaac left behind there is not a single affectionate recollection of her. The fact that there aren't anything doesn't mean they weren't close (one can be close without expressing it in writing!). >The lonely but intensely creative life he led as a boy was preparation for the creative but tortured and isolated life he would lead for most—though happily not all—of his adult life. The author seems to assume that everyone have to be surrounded by people to not have a 'tortured life'. I can't really say I agree. >But Newton was not cut out to be a farmer, proving that you can be a genius at calculating the orbits of the planets, and a total klutz when it comes to growing alfalfa. What’s more, he didn’t care. It sounds indeed like he didn't care, not that he simply sucked at it (though he might did suck). All in all, I'm not sure I liked the article in its entirety. Somehow, the author thinks (or knows, but without backing it up) that Newton was a bitter, arrogant misanthropy, because of a bad childhood.