I know how the world sees me, for me, I see myself as a child who spent his life playing on the beach, explaining himself from time to time by searching for a smoother rock, or a coincidence more beautiful than usual, while in front of him extends the circumference of the truth and knowledge waiting for those who explore it. " These are the words of the light philosopher, the last magician, Isaac Newton, recognizes in this summary the story of Newton's life as narrated by the American journalist and scientific historian James Gleick, and how he turned from one orphan whose father died and his mother married and emigrated, into a scientist, philosopher and inventor, redefining humanity to the universe and its laws, and laying the foundation stone For the world we live today. "