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A quote about the nature of truth:

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend

is truth. –Sir Issac Newton

Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its

own nature, without reference to anything external, flows
uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative,
apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure
(precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a
measure—for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year—is
commonly used instead of true time.
— Sir Isaac Newton

And thus Nature will be very conformable to her self and very
simple, performing all the great Motions of the heavenly Bodies by
the Attraction of Gravity which intercedes those Bodies, and
almost all the small ones of their Particles by some other
attractive and repelling Powers which intercede the Particles.
The Vis inertiae is a passive Principle by which Bodies persist in
their Motion or Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force
impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this
Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the
World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into
Motion; and now they are in Motion, some other Principle is
necessary for conserving the Motion.
— Sir Isaac Newton

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all
sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a
center.
By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable,
that every particle attracts every other particle with a force
which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus
suggested is assumed to be universally true.

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of

gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever
is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis,
and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of
occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental
philosophy.

Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of

our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a
cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that
penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without
any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion
to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts
(as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the
quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere
to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the
distances.