Not even a silly person is going to argue against the Law of Gravity. It's the glue that holds our butts to this blessed, green sod. Its presence is clearly demonstrated by every object on this globe and without it we'd be mucking about in space.
Isaac Newton was the clever chap that first made sense out of things consistently falling down; but the truth of the matter is, being aware of gravity didn't change a thing. Gravity is the same as when humans were all blissfully ignorant of the phenomenon and simply took for granted that when you dropped a brick it would land on your toe and not bop you in the nose. I am pretty certain that most of average intelligence understood that the weight of the object was proportionate to the mass of the object. Hence dropping a quarter on your toe would not be as regrettable. Science has truly made an art out of putting new words to old ideas and making it into something new. So, thanks Isaac, for putting a name to the face we were all familiar with.
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