Ancient China invented paper about 105 AD and may still have an untold number of ancient writings that could have discoveries written down long before European scholars/scientists thought to publish them. 300 years later, the Chinese secret to making paper traveled to the region that is now the Middle East, but early civilizations had a nasty habit of burning libraries of other cultures, so who knows what was lost. Then, it took another 500 years for papermaking to enter Europe. It boggles the mind that it took Newton until 1687 to publish his law of universal gravitation.
He also hates “Good Day Sunshine” and “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles (among many others).