Isaac Newton: Useful Things, though Mechanical, are justly preferable to useless Speculations in Geometry , as we learn from Pappus .

Useful Things, though Mechanical, are justly preferable to useless Speculations — Isaac Newton

Useful Things, though Mechanical, are justly preferable to useless Speculations in Geometry , as we learn from Pappus .

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