“When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon…”

“When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, 'tis due to nothing but industry and a patient thought.”

— Isaac Newton

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Title: Wikiquote: Isaac Newton
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Newton to Bentley, 10 December 1692 (first letter), The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, ed. H. W. Turnbull (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961), 3:233. Referenced on p. 383 of Snobelen SD: "The Theology of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica: A Preliminary Survey," pp. 377–412, Neue Zeitsc

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Newton, Isaac. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Isaac Newton. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

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