Isaac Newton
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English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727), Lucasian professor at Cambridge and later Master of the Royal Mint; author of the Principia and the Opticks.
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Admit no more causes of natural things than are both true and sufficient to explain them (opens korrents.com)
“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”
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Nature is pleased with simplicity and has no use for superfluous causes (opens korrents.com)
“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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The same natural effects should, as far as possible, be given the same causes (opens korrents.com)
“Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.”
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Admit no more causes of natural things than are both true and sufficient to explain them (opens korrents.com)