...conceded to the atheists that gravity may be essential and inherent to matter. " Pray," says Newton, " do not ascribe that notion to me ; for the cause of...therefore would take more time to consider of it." In the last letter, about five weeks later, Newton returns to this topic, and speaks more decidedly....

...application. This protest is still extant as an itfin of correspondence, wherein he wrote very earnestly : "You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know." But that prayer has heen very generally ignored. or else viciously unheeded. Theorists, ostensibly...

...that similar language is applicable to molecular forces generally): "You sometimes speak of gravity us essential and inherent to matter. Pray, do not ascribe...of gravity is what I do not pretend to know." And again in the third letter: "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...

...attraction was simply a name that covered an unknown cause. Ten years afterward he wrote of the suggestion of " gravity as essential and inherent to matter," " pray do not ascribe that notion to me," and afterward, " that gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body...

...plausible conjecture. The vast majority of physicists will readily subscribe Newton's words to Bentley : "You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement : " That gravity should be...

...conceded to the atheists that gravity may be essential and inherent to matter. 'Pray,' says Newton, 'do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of...therefore would take more time to consider of it.' In the last letter, about five weeks later, Newton returns to this topic, and speaks more decidedly....

...assure encore quc 1'etendue senle fait la matiere, Newtou y ajoute la solidito " (lettre xiv. ) - " You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know " (Newton's 2d letter to Bentley, 17th January 1692-93). "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute...

...gravitation (nnd it ibobvioui that similar language is applicable to molecular forces generally): ' You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...of gravity is what I do not pretend to know.' And again in the third letter: ' It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...

...gravitation (and it is obvious that similar language is applicable to molecular forces generally): " You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...of gravity is what I do not pretend to know." And again in the third letter: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...

...gravity is, although he had such a decided opinion about the way it operates. In a letter to a friend he says : ' ' You sometimes speak of gravity as essential...ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity I do not pretend to know." It is not too much to say that no one to-day has any more knowledge on this...