Quote: Newton's third rule--qualities confirmed by experiment are universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever

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RULE III The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. For since the qualities of bodies are only known to us by experiments, we are to hold for universal all such as universally agree with experiments; and such as are not liable to diminution can never be quite taken away. We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to receded from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple, and always constant to itself.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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