Quotes from book
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

Immanuel Kant
Original title
Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft
(German, 1786)
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is a 1786 book by the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

In the meantime, this little is something which mathematics indispensably requires in its application to natural science, which, inasmuch as it must here necessarily borrow from metaphysics, need not be ashamed to allow itself to be seen in company with the latter.
Preface, Tr. Bax (1883) citing Isaac Newton's Principia
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786)