QuoteQuest“Useful Things, though Mechanical, are justly preferable to useless Speculations in Geometry, as we learn from Pappus.”
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- Wikiquote: Isaac Newton
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- reference · Secondary source
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Newton, Isaac. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Isaac Newton. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
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