Sir Isaac Newton

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    If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
    Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

    I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
    —Isaac Newton (1642–1727)