On Newton's Apple and Worcester's Pear

Sir Isaac Newton's "discovery" of gravity, when an apple dropped on his head, is widely interpreted as heralding one of the beginnings of the modern enlightenment and scientific age. However, Newton was also a renowned alchemist in his own time.

Might a pear falling onto the head of a passer by in a Worcester city park have similar import ?
Probably not. Nevertheless, the beginnings of the next age of enlightenment and science have to start somewhere.

If not here where, if not now when ?