This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton was not an extravagant person. He wrote the book that is now known as “The Principia.” It is a book that summarizes the entire scientific theory of motion, gravity, motion, etc. It is a scientific book filled with scientific theories and evidence, however, it is ironic that Newton would not include anything about his most famous theory in the book he wrote to prove his theories. Newton understood the limits of the human mind and how it could not understand everything.

He knew that this limitation of our minds would make it difficult for everyone to believe in him. However, this did not stop him from sharing with everyone what he knew to be true. He wrote that he “forbore to describe” what he “knew to be true.”

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