Quote: no hypotheses about the cause of gravity because of a lack of phenomena to support them

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But hitherto 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 an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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