"No king or minister could have instructed Newton……" — C. Northcote Parkinson

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law… - C. Northcote Parkinson
"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..."

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