That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Sir Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori (1946). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.636, Univ of California Press
