"In mathematics, metaphysics, literature, and art the Greeks displayed wonderful creative genius, but in natural science they achieved comparatively little. ...it is true that, as a rule, they were ignorant of the art of experimentation, and that many of their physical speculations were vague, trifling, and worthless."
January 1, 1970
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_History_of_Physics_in_its_Elementary_Branches