I think I agree with the outcome of the poll...
Newton, qui genus humanum ingenio superavit
( ... who surpassed all men of genius )
is inscribed on the pedestal of his statue at Trinity College. The motto is lifted from Lucretius, who said it of Epicurus.
Also check out Halley's Ode To Newton.
( original is in Latin )
............... But now, behold,
Admitted to the banquets of the gods,
We contemplate the polities of heaven;
and spelling out the secrets of the earth,
Discern the changeless order of the world
And all the aeons of its history.
Then ye who now on heavenly nectar fare,
Come celebrate with me in song the name
Of Newton, to the Muses dear; for he
Unlocked the hidden treasuries of Truth:
So richly through his mind had Phoebus cast
The radiance of his own divinity.
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Reading this brings Einstein to mind, since he found hidden treasuries within the hidden treasuries, as it were. Still, he came after.
Einstein wrote a foreword to Galileo's Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, and after leading off with lavish praise for the man, he says,
"In speaking this way I notice that I, too, am falling in with the general weakness of those who, intoxicated with devotion, exaggerate the stature of their heroes."