>years ago, I read a whole book on this quote, but can't recall the author -
>Nisbett? Something with an N? That'll help a lot, I know, but I'm certain
>there is a book. It's stimulus was that apparently Newton said it, too, and
>the author is a history of science guy.
>
The attribution to Newton (almost always credited as the phrase's coiner)
has become fairly common in popular science writing of late, but I've even
seen it attributed to "famed Berkeley physicist Steven Hawking", which
manages to pack three pieces of misinformation into a single sentence!
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