newton
Original: newton on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top banner): Late in life, Isaac Newton decides to tell non-physicists they're doing everything wrong.
Panel 1:
An elderly man (Isaac Newton): "If I have looked down on more people, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Votey:
A close-up of the elderly man's face, eyes narrowed in disdain.
Isaac Newton: "You people are doing alchemy all wrong!"
Panel 1:
An elderly man (Isaac Newton): "If I have looked down on more people, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Votey:
A close-up of the elderly man's face, eyes narrowed in disdain.
Isaac Newton: "You people are doing alchemy all wrong!"
Alt text
A yellow caption banner reads: "Late in life, Isaac Newton decides to tell non-physicists they're doing everything wrong." Below, an elderly white-haired man with a stern, condescending expression and closed eyes says in a speech bubble: "If I have looked down on more people, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." The joke twists Newton's famous quote about standing on the shoulders of giants into "looking DOWN on people." Votey: a black-and-white close-up of the same man's narrowed, disdainful eyes and downturned mouth as he declares, "You people are doing alchemy all wrong!" - a nod to Newton's real-life alchemy obsession.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.