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The difference between me and Isaac Newton

Bill Bryson, in his excellent and thoroughly readable book A Short History of Nearly Everything (audio excerpt), writes that Isaac Newton "upon swinging his feet out of bed in the morning would reportedly sometimes sit for hours, immobilized by the sudden rush of thoughts to his head."

Among other much more dramatic ways, I differ from Mr. Newton in that I will sometimes stay in bed in the morning indefinitely simply because I can't think of anything else to do.