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Bernard BaruchMillions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?

 - Bernard Baruch

Tags:   gravity  inquiry  science  

Isaac NewtonIt is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus be essential or inherent n it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, to me, so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.

 - Isaac Newton

Tags:   distance  gravity  matter