Isaac Newton

Hello! My name is Isaac. When I was a little boy, I lived on a big, green farm. I loved to watch the world around me. I would watch the puffy white clouds float across the blue sky. I would watch the tall grass dance when the wind blew. I loved to ask questions. I would ask, “Why does the sun feel so warm?” and “Why do the flowers grow toward the light?”. I was a very curious boy, and I always wanted to know how things worked. My head was always full of wonderful questions.

One day, a long, long time ago, in the year 1666, I was sitting under a big apple tree. The sun was warm, and a gentle breeze was blowing. It was a perfect day for thinking. Suddenly, I heard a little sound. Plop! An apple had fallen from a branch and landed on the grass right near me. I picked it up and looked at it. Then I looked up at the tree, and then at the sky. A big question popped into my head. Why did the apple fall down? Why didn't it fall up into the sky? Or sideways? I thought and thought. It felt like something was pulling the apple down to the ground. It was like an invisible string, pulling everything toward the center of the Earth. I gave this special invisible pull a name. I called it gravity. Gravity is what keeps your toys on the floor and keeps you from floating away!

My curiosity didn't stop with apples. I also loved rainbows! I wondered where all their beautiful colors came from. I discovered that bright sunlight, which looks white, is actually made of all the colors of the rainbow hiding inside it! Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are all zipped up together in a single sunbeam. I also realized that the same invisible pull that makes apples fall is what keeps the Moon dancing around the Earth at night. It holds the Moon close so it doesn't wander off into space. I grew very old and then I died, but my ideas are still helping us understand the world. Never stop asking questions. Being curious is the first step to making amazing discoveries.