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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephistopheles" data-source="post: 4476034" data-attributes="member: 4460">By some accounts Isaac Newton was a good example of someone with high intelligence but low wisdom.[quote='A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.]Many anecdotes of his extreme absence of mind when engaged in any investigation have been preserved. Thus once when riding home from Grantham he dismounted to lead his horse up a steep hill; when he turned at the top to remount, he found that he had the bridle in his hand, while his horse had slipped it and gone away. Again, on the few occasions when he sacrificed his time to entertain his friends, if he left them to get more wine or for any similar reason, he would as often as not be found after the lapse of some time working out a problem, oblivious alike of his expectant guests and of his errand.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]