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Tate Icons Alex James of Blur chooses `Newton' William Blake, 1795/circa 1805

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20011030
Author:Alex James

I LOOKED at this and my immediate thoughts were: colourful, classical Greek figure, very nice. Then I looked again and thought, why is the figure in a fish tank? And what's that geometry he's doing? The figure is Newton, one of the great mathematicians in history. He worked out that everything is in motion and came up with his law of universal gravitation: what a feeling, the greatest sort of click moment!

I'm interested in religion but, unlike Blake, my faith is in science, the idea that we can measure the world. I didn't realise at first that Blake is taking the piss out of science. He's ...

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