"[T]he Aristotelian doctrine of inertia was a doctrine of rest—it was motion, not rest, that always required to be exp…"

"[T]he peculiar character of that Aristotelian universe... things... in motion had to be accompanied by a mover all of…"

"When mons. Descartes's philosophical Romance, by the Elegance of its Style and the plausible Accounts of natural Phæn…"

"With the discovery of the law of inertia and the subsequent downfall of the Aristotelian theory of motion on which Ke…"

"Let it be conceived that the [or a] particle acquires a tendency to move, and that nevertheless it does not move. It …"

"[An] example of the hubris of contemporary science is the rigorous banishment of the word "purpose" from its vocabula…"

"I could easily believe that Aristotle had stumbled, but not that, on entering physics, he had totally collapsed. Migh…"

"For Aristotelian physics the membership of an object in a given class was of critical importance, because for Aristot…"

"The attitude of Aristotelian physics toward lawfulness takes a new direction. So long as lawfulness remained limited …"

"Galileo's comprehension of the concept of acceleration, which he defined as a change of velocity either in magnitude …"