Yes! In fact I've often considered this question in the context of teaching physics - wouldn't it be wonderful if you started with a really hard problem, flailed around for a while, and then learned the thing that could solve it for you? Instead (in basic mechanics) we get "f=ma" and then see how it applies to a bunch of systems, instead of first looking at some idealized systems and challenging a student to ask some really basic questions about it. (Not necessarily the full equations of motion, which might not make sense yet, but basic stuff like "how fast does this weight need to move before it leaves contact with this curved surface").
(Actually, it's a little more involved with "F=ma" because really that's a key to a bunch of other keys - it yields closed form solutions to a bunch of important problems which are characterized by whether "a" is constant (linear motion), proportional to x (a spring), proportional to x^2 (gravity, electrostatics), their rotational analogues, and so on. BTW it still trips me out that Newton saw this connection to so many disparate systems, but I'm deeply grateful that he did.)
What is most astonishing is when and using what mathematics Newton recognized this. The next "big batch" came some 140 (!) years later: Cauchy's work on calculus, Carnot with the second law of thermodynamics and Bolyai's geometry were all created around 1820-1825. That Newton 140 years earlier could pull this off, and it's not like he had vague ideas which we understand today well and just attribute to him -- no, he got the laws and the maths precisely.
It is a whole another thing that his work is incredibly hard to understand today mostly because we learn calculus as Cauchy and Weierstrass laid it down. There was a course at our univ which teached Newton's calculus it was incredibly hard, I left it early.
(Actually, it's a little more involved with "F=ma" because really that's a key to a bunch of other keys - it yields closed form solutions to a bunch of important problems which are characterized by whether "a" is constant (linear motion), proportional to x (a spring), proportional to x^2 (gravity, electrostatics), their rotational analogues, and so on. BTW it still trips me out that Newton saw this connection to so many disparate systems, but I'm deeply grateful that he did.)