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By Isaac Newton
This most beautiful System of the Sun, Planets and Comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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- The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, translated by Andrew Motte, vol. 2, 1729 · Book III, General Scholium, p. 388
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From the General Scholium that closes Book III of the Principia, in Andrew Motte's English translation of 1729 (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, London: Benjamin Motte). The General Scholium was added in the second Latin edition of 1713. Newton is arguing from the order of the solar system to a designer.