Almost all physics crackpots are men. Men standing atop Mt. Stupid are blessed with supreme confidence. Crackpots reside there permanently.pic.twitter.com/siOFKFCzHi
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Newton is also a great example of an expert who might now be considered a crackpot for his work on alchemy and biblical chronology - the two fields that occupied him most in his later life. But standards change, so I wouldn't say someone into alchemy back then was a crackpot.
It seems to me that Newton always pursued one goal: to expose the plan of the creator of all things. He sought to know the mind of God, and had the (essentially heretical) audacity to imagine that he might succeed. He escaped Galileo's fate mostly by keeping silent.
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