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The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, back to a first cause that is not mechanical
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- Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727)
Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical
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↗Opticks (fourth edition, 1730)gutenberg.org
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