Sir Isaac Newton Was Asked

The Main Business Of Natural Philosophy Is To Argue From Phænomena Without Feigning Hypotheses, And To Deduce Causes From Effects Till We Come To The Very First Cause, Which Certainly Is Not Mechanical; And Not Only To Unfold The Mechanism Of The World, But Chiefly To Resolve These, And To Such Like Questions.

Are Not All Hypotheses Erroneous, In Which Light Is Supposed To Consist In Pression Or Motion, Propagated Through A Fluid Medium? For In All These Hypotheses The Phaenomena Of Light Have Been Hitherto Explain'd By Supposing That They Arise From New Modifications Of The Rays; Which Is An Erroneous Supposition.

In Scripture We Are Told Of Some Trusting In God And Others Trusting In Idols, And That God Is Our Refuge, Our Strength, Our Defense. In This Sense God Is The Rock Of His People, And False Gods Are Called The Rock Of Those That Trust In Them. In The Same Sense The Gods Of The King Who Shall Do According To His Will Are Called Mahuzzims, Munitions, Fortresses, Protectors, Guardians, Or Defenders.

Hypotheses Non Fingo. I Frame No Hypotheses.

It Seems Probable To Me That God, In The Beginning, Formed Matter In Solid, Massy, Hard, Impenetrable, Moveable Particles, Of Such Sizes And Figures, And With Such Other Properties, And In Such Proportions To Space, As Most Conduced To The End For Which He Formed Them; And That These Primitive Particles, Being Solids, Are Incomparably Harder Than Any Porous Bodies Compounded Of Them, Even So Very Hard As Never To Wear Or Break In Pieces; No Ordinary Power Being Able To Divide What God Had Made One In The First Creation.