The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.
C. Northcote ParkinsonNo 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.
C. Northcote Parkinson