Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.
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Alexander Pope, lines written for Newton's monument in Westminster Abbey, as quoted in The Epigrammatists : A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Medi?val, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329; a Latin inscription was chosen instead, but this was later inscribed on a marble tablet placed in the room of the manor-house of Woolsthorpe in which Newton was born.
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Nature and all her works lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be, and all was light.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
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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.
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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, Medi?val, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329Isaac Newton
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