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“What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.”

Mean Persons Law Brain Greater Ordinary Miracle Strikes Grass Gross Blades Laws Of Nature Commonplace Distortion Neurons Suspension Blades Of Grass Ordinary Person

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.”

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.”

Ifs Might Would Be Law Universe Causes Known Effects Ignorance Source Consequence Standing Miracle Defined Laws Of Nature

Author:Charles Babbage

“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.”

Knows May Law Certain Order Known Conditions Higher Ordinary Miracle Contrary Superiors Inferiors Laws Of Nature

Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.”

Men Book Soul Care Law Order Study Atheism Teaching Subjects Events Miracle Ancient Positive Atheism Accepted Occasions Conception Primitive Miraculous Literal Doubted

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.”

Mind Different Action Law Religion Universe Natural Answers Accepting Ambition Miracle Absolutes Chaos Firm Realms Stable Unpredictable Natural Law Inexplicable Flux

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It