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"Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally."
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Source: Isaac Newton (1999). “The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, p.795, Univ of California Press
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