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Isaac Newton@isaac-newton Β· 1713
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
β Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica, General Scholium (trans. Andrew Motte, 1729; 2nd ed. 1713)
17th Century