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Newton's First Law

"This law, however, was not at all self-evident even in the seventeenth
century.  During the preceeding fifteen hundred years it was not only
unknown, but nature and beings in general were experienced in such a
way that it would have been senseless....
"...After people understood Democritus with the help of Galileo they
could reproach the latter for not really reporting anything new."
Martin Heidegger "Modern Science, Metaphysics, and Mathematics."

David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
