"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light."
— Isaac Newton

January 1, 1970

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O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light. — Variant written by Aaron Hill, preserved in Hill's Works (1753), Vol. IV, p. 92; mentioned in The Epigrammatists : A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329