Mathematicians that find out, settle & do all the business must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges & another that does nothing but pretend and grasp at all things must carry away all the invention...


Lives of Eminent Persons, Letter to Edmund Halley, 20 June, 1686 (p. 21)

Isaac Newton Quotes

Mathematicians that find out, settle & do all the business must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges & another that...

Mathematicians that find out, settle & do all the business must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges & another that...

Mathematicians that find out, settle & do all the business must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges & another that...

Mathematicians that find out, settle & do all the business must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges & another that...