The whole difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this—from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Laws of motion and gravity
The whole difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this—from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Laws of motion and gravity
From 'Principia Mathematica', Preface to the First Edition
1687
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