Those “simple” equations underlie almost ALL scientific thought. They have implications far beyond the motions of the planets, which stimulated them. It’s hard

Those “simple” equations underlie almost ALL scientific thought. They have implications far beyond the motions of the planets, which stimulated them. It’s hard to make a quantitative argument about how much more powerful they are than a statistical model, which I am sure is possible with today’s modeling, as you suggest. Ahh, but without Newton’s Laws, there would be no machines to run the models! It IS useful to have machines GUESS models in science, by the way. You might know that a consequence of the inverse square law of gravitation and electromagnetism implies that the surface integral of those fields over a closed surface enclosing mass or charge depends ONLY on mass and charge enclosed, and NOT on it’s detailed distribution therein. You have to have the model to actually prove this.