What Isaac Newton thinks about design
English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727), Lucasian professor at Cambridge and later Master of the Royal Mint; author of the Principia and the Opticks.
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1 dated position, c. 1704–1718, in their own words. Our reading of what Isaac Newton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe properties of light should be proved by reason and experiments, not explained by hypotheses
Their wordsMy Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments
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