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Quotation from Opticks by Isaac Newton
“it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them”
Opticks, Book III, Query 31 (Project Gutenberg text of the 4th edition (London, 1730))
Newton's account of the ultimate particles of matter, framed as an inference about creation.
Citation: "it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them" — Isaac Newton, Opticks, Book III, Query 31 (Project Gutenberg text of the 4th edition (London, 1730)). (id newton-opticks-q7)
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