“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.”

—  Voltaire

As attributed in More Random Walks in Science : An Anthology (1982) by Robert L. Weber, p. 65
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French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694–1778

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