What Isaac Newton thinks about simplicity
English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727), Lucasian professor at Cambridge and later Master of the Royal Mint; author of the Principia and the Opticks.
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1 dated position, c. 1713–1726, in their own words. Our reading of what Isaac Newton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsTo this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
↗The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Book III (tr. Andrew Motte, 1729; 1846 edition)en.wikisource.org All 5 from this book