Skewering the Lines Between Domains of Knowledge
3 min readOct 31, 2022
Isaac Newton never found the philosopher’s stone or the Elixir of Life, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. We look back on this as a comical thing. What was the world’s most influential scientist thinking? How did he not recognize that alchemy was fundamentally a different — and illegitimate! — game compared to his hard-science work?
