...: It is inconceivable, that inanimate brüte matter should without the mediation of something eise, which is not material, operate upon and affect other...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. Und weiter: That gravity should be innate inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act...

...instantaneously control all worlds and all atoms, if it were only a physical force Î " It is," says Newton, " inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without contact." Assume that there is a God, and you assign a sufficient...

...of rest, but of intense activity. * Newton's mystical statement in his letters to Dr. Bentley — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something file which is not material, operate on other matter " — is a proposition virtually unthinkable. Could...

...he said, " I have not, as yet, been able to deduce, and I frame no hypothesis/' And he also said : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, an it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it." All the...

...faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To a friend he wrote : " It is inconceivable that innate brute matter should without the mediation of something else which is not material operate on and effect other matter, without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,...

...phenomena of gravitation. " It is inconceivable," said Newton, in one of hie letters to Dr. Bentley, t "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...not material, operate upon and affect other matter wit/tout mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so...

...his mind is indicated by the following passage, taken from a letter written by him to Bentley : — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...sense of Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon...

...inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as...sense of Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon...

...of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it." "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...

...sentence from Newton's third letter to Bentley : "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute [inert] matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material [ie, without an ethereal medium], operate upon and affect other matter, without material contact, as...