“All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.” HumansLawInterestCommonEmotionFundamentalsTalesCosmosSignificancePremisesValidityOrganic Life Book:The Classic Horror Stories Source: The Classic Horror Stories
“And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.” MindHumansStillsMatterBodyLastsFormLawMoralDoubtDesignLessonsHarmonyDoctrineMathematicalSignificanceDomainCrystalsUsefulnessAnalogiesExcludedBurstingSparklingRigidityHuman KnowledgeFabricateTrigonometry Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862
“Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.” LawOrderSimpleExistencePrinciplesCreationUltimateProductionsSignificancePregnantDisciplePlatoComprehensiveUltimate Truth Book:Lay Sermons Source: Lay Sermons