“[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.” MindMomentsTruthScienceNatureViewsPlansFailingPositionSimplicityComplicatedSatisfiedContemplatingSublimeSmall Parts Author:John Herschel
“Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.” MenWorldEyeOrderDesignObjectsContemplatingPassiveIndifferent Author:John Herschel
