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"God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe."
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Source: Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.186, Cambridge University Press
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