"Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?"

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Source: Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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Isaac Newton was a mathematician and physicist known for formulating the laws of motion and universal gravitation, pivotal in the scientific revolution.

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