I have often thought that the world is like a great clock, made by a most skillful workman, and that all the parts of it are so exactly fitted to one another, that they all conspire to produce the same effect.
Father of modern chemistry
I have often thought that the world is like a great clock, made by a most skillful workman, and that all the parts of it are so exactly fitted to one another, that they all conspire to produce the same effect.
Father of modern chemistry
From 'A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things'
1688
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