And thus much concerning God, to discourse of whom from the appearances of things does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy.
- Newton, Princpia
The durability of Conservatism has depended,
to a great extent,
on it being a disposition rather than a philosophy.
What marks Conservatives out,
across the generations,
and whatever the environment they operate in,
is an attitude of mind rather than an adherence to dogma. And that disposition
- skeptical, cautious, pragmatic,
sensitive to the local and the particular
- has been politically successful because
it has been in tune with human nature.
Michael Gove