"[Newton] achieved the clearest appreciation of the relation between the empirical elements in a scientific system and the hypothetical elements derived from a philosophy of nature."
— Isaac Newton

January 1, 1970

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Alistair Cameron Crombie as quoted by John Freely in Before Galileo; The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012)