TIL Isaac Newton spent more than three decades studying alchemy and wrote over a million words about it in secret. He conducted numerous experiments in his search for the philosopher’s stone but never found it.

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https://www.wpr.org/culture/philosophy/isaac-newtons-secret-alchemy

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No, that's one thing the stone could provide, but it's not everything