What Isaac Newton thinks about discipline

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English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727), Lucasian professor at Cambridge and later Master of the Royal Mint; author of the Principia and the Opticks.

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1. 10 Dec 1692

   Our readingWhatever service his work did was due to nothing but industry and patient thought

   Their wordsBut if I have done the publick any service this way 'tis due to nothing but industry & a patient thought.

   ↗Letter to Richard Bentley, 10 December 1692newtonproject.ox.ac.uk