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The Fall of an Apple
forward to, failure to get a good job, and so on. But
those who, in spite of these drawbacks, never lose their
courage and continue to make unflagging efforts, in the
end emerge as super-achievers.
The Fall of an Apple
Nature always tries to give you a lesson, shows you the right
direction and tries to unfold your potential. It tries to make you
aware of the opportunities which present themselves
all around you.
saac Newton was a great English physicist and
Imathematician. It is said that once when he was
sitting beneath a tree, an apple hit him on the head,
and through pondering over this phenomenon he
discovered the Universal Law of Gravitation.
This was like a shock treatment administered by
nature. This event triggered a train of thought in
Newton’s mind. He started thinking about why, when
an apple fell, it came down and did not go up. This
thinking led to the discovery of the law of gravitation.
This law had always been there, but man had failed to
discover it. Then, after a long time, nature hit man on
the head and told him in the language of hammering: ‘O
Man, discover the law that has remained undiscovered
till this date.’
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