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Indeed, one of Newton's most famous pronouncements in the Principia is: hypotheses non fingo, that is, “I feign no hypotheses.” [

Newton's Philosophy Janiak, Andrew 2006

*Closes eyes* *Crosses fingo-paws* I wish for BBQ sauce!

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Cioè, potreste pensare che fingo perché il corto parla del blocco dello scrittore, ma io davvero non lo so…

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Hence “hypotheses non fingo” might be interpreted to mean that we have insufficient data to characterize gravity physically; it means neither that we have grounds for ending the search for such data, nor that attempts to use new data to produce a physical characterization would involve a sullying of physics by hypotheses.

Newton's Philosophy Janiak, Andrew 2006

In the General Scholium, hypotheses non fingo concerns the postulation of a cause for gravity.

Newton's Philosophy Janiak, Andrew 2006

Sir Isaac Newton says: Hypotheses non fingo, quicquid enim ex phaenomenis non deducitur hypothesis vocanda est, et hypothesis vel metaphysicae, vel physicae, vel qualitatum occultarum, seu mechanicae, in philosophia locum non habent.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Echoing the seventeenth-century criticism of natural science in the Middle Ages which was based on the principle of hypotheses non fingo (“I do not frame hypotheses”), some critics raised the objection that the term Volksgeist expresses that which we do not know or understand and reminds one of the primitive mind's furnishing the world with spirits — the spirit of life, of light, of fire.

VOLKSGEIST NATHAN ROTENSTREICH 1968

Newton's proclamation, hypotheses non fingo — “hypotheses whether metaphysical or physical ... have no place in experimental philosophy” — had been taken very literally by Helvétius, Condillac, Voltaire, and by the majority of practicing scientists.

METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

This operational variety of pragmatism is the historical outcome of the many attempts of philosophers, mathe - maticians, and experimental scientists to avoid sterile speculation, subjective intuitions, and unverifiable hypotheses (of the sort Newton rejected when he said hypotheses non fingo, although he accepted absolute space and time as the ultimate framework of the phys - ical universe).

PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

Even the great Newton could not free himself from this error ( "Hypotheses non fingo").

Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950