Isaac Newton Quote

To understand the motions of the planets under the influence of gravity without knowing the cause of gravity is as good a progress in philosophy as to understand the frame of a clock and the dependence of the wheels upon one another without knowing the cause of the gravity of the weight.


Memoirs of Literature, Chapter XVIII, Sold by R. Knaplock. 1722


To understand the motions of the planets under the influence of gravity without knowing the cause of gravity is as good a progress in philosophy as...

To understand the motions of the planets under the influence of gravity without knowing the cause of gravity is as good a progress in philosophy as...

To understand the motions of the planets under the influence of gravity without knowing the cause of gravity is as good a progress in philosophy as...

To understand the motions of the planets under the influence of gravity without knowing the cause of gravity is as good a progress in philosophy as...