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| Isaac Newton |
In Chapter
1 of his book Astrology, science or belief? published in 1992, Manuel Toharia
writes:
However wise they can be about certain
subject matters, there is always some element that contradicts the myth of the
perfect genius. For example, it is well-known that Newton was an angry man,
terribly unfriendly and probably a repressed homosexual. Lest there be any
misunderstanding, we must add immediately that what we find wrong with this
alleged homosexuality of the English genius is its repression, which certainly made
him a bitter person, no doubt with a minimal dose of self-esteem.
Probably a repressed
homosexual? And
how can we know this, if it is true that Newton repressed it? Or did Toharia
(or whoever was his original source) have inside information, or perhaps he came
to this conclusion because he knows that Newton suffered at least two psychic crises
in his life, and believes that their cause must have been his repressed homosexuality?
Observe the use of the qualifiers certainly
and no doubt. If so, his argument would be a
textbook example of the fallacy of the invisible cat:
