https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/30/why-you-wont-find-stanfords-secret-sapling-of-the-famed-newton-gravity-tree/ > STANFORD — What’s this tree hiding? > A sapling on the Stanford campus is heir to scientific aristocracy, the descendant of the tree that legend says inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s Theory of Universal Gravitation. Every day, this leafy apple tree witnesses the daily comings and goings of our next generation of deep thinkers.