You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion ...

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

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Isaac Newton

British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics

January 4th, 1643 - March 31st, 1727

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