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Quotation from Opticks by Isaac Newton

“Was the Eye contrived without Skill in Opticks, and the Ear without Knowledge of Sounds?”

Isaac Newton

Opticks, Book III, Query 28 (Project Gutenberg text of the 4th edition (London, 1730))

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One of a run of questions about the order of nature that Newton says natural philosophy must chiefly resolve.

Citation: "Was the Eye contrived without Skill in Opticks, and the Ear without Knowledge of Sounds?" — Isaac Newton, Opticks, Book III, Query 28 (Project Gutenberg text of the 4th edition (London, 1730)). (id newton-opticks-q5)

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