While Europe was busy dying from the bubonic plague in the 1660s, Newton was sent home from Cambridge and decided to casually revolutionize physics and optics. Nothing says "productive quarantine" like discovering that white light splits into a rainbow spectrum through a prism! The man literally invented calculus because he was bored. Meanwhile, I can barely finish a Netflix series during a sick day.
This is peak scientist energy—ignoring a catastrophic pandemic to play with shiny trinkets and accidentally change the course of human understanding. Newton's priorities were crystal clear: plague < rainbow colors go brrr.