3 Isaac Newton Quotes on Methodology

Isaac Newton quotes on methodology

3. 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, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

21. We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

25. Hypotheses non fingo.