Newton's version of gravity violates common sense. How can one thing tug at another across vast spans of space? ...Newton's formalism nonetheless provided an astonishingly accurate means of calculating the orbits of planets; it was too effective to deny.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Newton's version of gravity violates common sense. How can one thing tug at another across vast spans of space? ...Newton's formalism nonetheless provided an astonishingly accurate means of calculating the orbits of planets; it was too effective to deny." in the context of "John Horgan, The End of Science (1996)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.