...observable or logical is of a purely hypothetical nature. Hypotheses non fingo, Newton had famously said. "For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether occult qualities or mechanical,...

...able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities, or mechanical,...

...heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses." Exactly what Newton himself understood by "I frame [or, in a better translation "feign"]...

...instance, denounced Newtonian gravity as being an occult quality. Indeed, as Newton himself claimed: "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" (ibid.). Newton's thought was that an explanation cannot be faulted on the grounds that...

...hypothesis" applied generally, rather than being merely a phrase taken out of context. [Newton wrote, "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis ... And to us it is enough that...

...virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances — But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. Hypotheses have no place in...

...of thinking could ever fall into it. Nevertheless he left his equations to speak for themselves: 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 a hypothesis, and hypotheses,...