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"I wish we could derive the rest of the phænomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles; for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they may all depend upon certain forces by which the particles of bodies, by some causes hitherto unknown, are either mutually impelled towards each other, and cohere in regular figures, or are repelled and recede from each other; which forces being unknown, philosophers have hitherto attempted the search of nature in vain; but I hope the principles here laid down will afford some light either to this or some truer method of philosophy." -- Sir Isaac Newton, in the preface to Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published 1687-07-05 (this quotation copied from the 1729 translation by Andrew Motte; if anyone cares to supply the original Latin to put alongside it, that'd be nifty)

[Hmm. Okay, yeah, I guess you could say that his work "afforded some light". Kinda like you could say that Lennon & McCartney or J.S. Bach "had a few hits".]