"Are not gross bodies and light convertible into……" — Isaac Newton
"Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations."
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Isaac Newton
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137 Quotes by Isaac Newton
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