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Isaac Newton was coping hard as hell.
False. He was from a wealthy upper clsss family. He didn't toil a day in life, had all of his basic needs (food, shelter, cleaning etc.) taken care of, and had the opportunity to be a suitor multiple times. Getting married and ascending wouldn't have been any problem for him.
He knew what would happen if he got married, though. His work would have suffered. We still would have gotten calculus, thanks to Leibniz's work, but physics might have lagged a bit behind.
A major step towards philosophical and intellectual enlightenment is shedding your earthly desires. That includes sex. This is why enlightenment is extremely difficult and rare. Plato was also said to have abstained from sex.