Thu 20 Sep 2007
Nature’s laws lay hid in night
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Nature, and nature’s laws, lay hid in night.
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
Alexander Pope, “Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminister Abbey” in J. Butt (ed.) The Poems of Alexander Pope (London: 1963), p. 808.