Hypotheses non fingo is a Latin phrase attributed to Isaac Newton often translated as, 'I make no hypotheses'. The context is that he is refusing to speculate as the the whys of the laws of nature, confining himself entirely to their phenomenal description. Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Sir Isaac Newton in Godfrey Knellers 1689 portrait Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 by the Julian calendar in use in England at the time; or 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 by the Gregorian calendar) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and alchemist... The Laws of Nature are claimed in the United States Declaration of Independence to be the work of the Creator of unalienable rights identified as Natures God. ...