> One eighteenth century philosopher (if only I could remember who) said that we do not know what forces are but “time has domesticated them”. Interestingly, I

> One eighteenth century philosopher (if only I could remember who) said that we do not know what forces are but “time has domesticated them”. Interestingly, I could only find one other reference to that phrase[1]: One 18th century natural philosopher wrote that forces were incomprehensible but "time has domesticated them." [1] Why do we study geometry https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~piers/F-I-G_opening_ppr.pdf https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~piers/F-I-G_opening_ppr.pdf