It is not the business of philosophy to account for the truth of things by hypotheses, but to deduce them from phenomena.
Laws of motion and gravity
It is not the business of philosophy to account for the truth of things by hypotheses, but to deduce them from phenomena.
Laws of motion and gravity
From 'Principia Mathematica', General Scholium
1713 (2nd edition)
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