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When I asked him [Newton] how this earth could have been repeopled if ever it had undergone the same it was threatened with hereafter by the comet of 1680? He answered, that required the power of a Creator.
John Conduitt
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Charles Babbage
John Conduitt
Born:
1688
Died:
May 23, 1737
(aged 49)
Bio:
John Conduitt was a British Member of Parliament and Master of the Mint who married Sir Isaac Newton's niece.
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