expression
I feign no hypotheses; hypotheses non fingo
A famous quotation from Isaac Newton's essay, expressing his refusal to invent speculative hypotheses not derived from experiment. Used in Japanese as a set phrase when discussing scientific methodology or Newton's philosophy.
ニュートンの「我は仮説を作らず」という言葉は、科学的方法の基本を示している。
Newton's phrase 'I feign no hypotheses' illustrates a fundamental principle of the scientific method.
A Japanese translation of Isaac Newton's Latin phrase 'Hypotheses non fingo', which appears in his 'General Scholium' (1713). The Japanese rendering is a direct translation, not a native idiom.