"I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction."
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made
"I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy."
Isaac Newton"Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting the Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of the distance from the center."
Isaac Newton"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Isaac Newton"I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
Isaac Newton"Whence are you certain that ye Ancient of Days is Christ? Does Christ anywhere sit upon ye Throne?"
Isaac Newton"God created everything by number, weight and measure."
Isaac Newton