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Quotation from Opticks by Isaac Newton
“My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments”
Opticks, Book I, Part I, opening (Project Gutenberg text of the 4th edition (London, 1730))
The first sentence of the treatise proper, announcing the experimental method of the whole work.
Citation: "My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments" — Isaac Newton, Opticks, Book I, Part I, opening (Project Gutenberg text of the 4th edition (London, 1730)). (id newton-opticks-q1)
Portrait: GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
