It’s fun to note the anti-Edenic story of Newton’s mathematical awakening as well; as he was reflecting under an apple tree, an apple fell and hit him on the head, giving him a glimpse of this theory of gravity. Unlike in Paradise Lost, where knowledge is a forbidden temptation, here knowledge falls unaided from nature’s bounty. Natural laws, like gravity, impress themselves upon us through experience.
Derek Murphy, Evil Be My Good