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= Voltaire =
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Voltaire is the epitome of the 18th century Enlightenment period. He was known for his beliefs against Christianity but he was not against all religion. In his “Poem of the Lisbon Earthquake” Voltaire questions, “But how conceive a God supremely good who heaps his favours on the sons he loves, yet scatters evil with as large a hand?” Voltaire doesn’t understand why people can have a belief in a supreme being who “heaps his favours on the sons he loves” but also “scatters evil.” He does not believe that God can love his sons but also cause so much evil in the world they live in. Voltaire did not support the dogmatic theory of institutional religions, his religiosity was anticlerical (Liukkonen). Voltaire disagreed with a religion in which its followers were supposed to believe everything they were told to be true with no argument. However, while he was mostly opposed to Christianity, he did share the same belief that the core of human values that are taught in Christianity are true in all other religions (Hare).

Hare, John. __Religion and Morality__. 27 Sept 2006. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 6 Aug 2009. .

Liukkonen, Petri. __Voltaire__. 2008. Author’s Calendar. 4 Aug 2009 .

=Sir Isaac Newton = ==  Sir Isaac Newton learned or taught himself how to do everything on his own. “I know not what I appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilest the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me”(Newton). He may have learned geometry at school, though he always spoke of himself as self-taught himself (Hall). He increased his learning by studying the writings of William Oughtred, John Wallis and the Dutch school (Hall). Newton helped with all types of math, however he was very popular for his geometry drawings. He figured out ways to solve math problems that are still famous to this day. Late in life, Newton expressed regret for the algebraic style of recent mathematical progress, preferring the geometrical method of the Classical Greeks, which he regarded as clearer and more correct (Hall). He often lectured about his book, __Opticks__, which was about about the quadratics and classification of cubic curves. These lectures occurred from 1673-1683, and the book was published in 1707.
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Hall, Alfred. __Isaac Newton’s Life.__ 13 Aug 1998. Isacc Newton Institute For Mathmatical Sciences. 7 Aug 2009. .