牛顿于1642年出生在英国林肯郡。少年时进格兰瑟姆镇的金格斯学校学习。在校期间,他学拉丁文和语法,没有什么迹象显示他日后的天才。确实,人们认为他天资迟钝。直到后来他被一个高年级比他大的男孩踢了一脚,他就把那个家伙痛打了一顿,而且开始发奋,要在学习上超过那个大男孩,至此,人们才改变了对他的看法。 19岁时,他进入剑桥的三一学院,在那里他开始研究数学和科学,在这些方面有许多伟大的发现。按照牛顿奠定的传统,剑桥保持着英国科学之乡的地位,一直到今天。 Newton was born in 1642 in Lincolnshire, England. Admission to Golden Geese School in Grantham Town as a teenager. While studying in school, he learned Latin and grammar, and there was no sign of his future genius. Indeed, people think he is slow. Until later he was kicked by a senior boy more than his older brother, he knocked the guy up and started to work hard to outdo that big boy in learning so far that people changed their minds . At the age of 19, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he began to study mathematics and science, with many great discoveries in these areas. According to Newton’s tradition, Cambridge maintained its position as a science home in Britain until today.