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"If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do..." — Isaac Newton
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
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