What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?...does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.
(Opticks, 1730)
Isaac Newton
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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