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7810-002 at the University of Colorado
"A
Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen
done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and
correct it, and if you put him out of his road, he is at a stand;
Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about
figure, force and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every
rub. -- Isaac
Newton, 1694
Quoted in Richard S. Westfall's biography of Newton, entitled
'Never at Rest'