Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.


Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (ed. 1850)

Isaac Newton Quotes

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural...

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural...

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural...

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural...