Isaac Newton Quote

No more causes of natural things should be admitted than are both true and sufficient to explain their phenomena.


The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687), 3rd edition (1726), trans. I. B. Cohen and Anne Whitman (1999), Book 3, Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule 1


No more causes of natural things should be admitted than are both true and sufficient to explain their phenomena.

No more causes of natural things should be admitted than are both true and sufficient to explain their phenomena.

No more causes of natural things should be admitted than are both true and sufficient to explain their phenomena.

No more causes of natural things should be admitted than are both true and sufficient to explain their phenomena.