Author:  James Gleick
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the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague-force, mass, motion, and even time-and gave them new meanings. Newton made these terms into quantities, suitable for use in mathematical formulas. Until then, motion {for example} had been just as soft and inclusive a term as information.

( James Gleick )
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