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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Isaac Newton
Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Isaac Newton
Nature, Science, Simplicity
Sir Isaac Newton (1962). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world”, p.398, Univ of California Press

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Isaac Newton
Nature, Science, Men
"Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton". Book by Richard S. Westfall, p. 643, 1704.

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.

Isaac Newton
Nature, Philosophy, Book
Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

Isaac Newton
Nature, Distance, Science
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1952). “MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OPTICS”

All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

Isaac Newton
Nature, Science, Intelligent
Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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