No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date...


The Lawm and The Profits (ed. 1960)

C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law...

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law...

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law...

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law...