Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Year: 1687
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Isaac Newton:The Mathematical Principles ofNatural Philosophy
Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy
General Scholium
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844223.book-part-034

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Abstract

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both time and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

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