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The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. — J.B.S. Haldane · 1951God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly. — Isaac Newton · 1704All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul. — Alexander Pope · 1733Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God. — Thornton Wilder · 1927To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything. — Muhammad · 632All 9 quotes →
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. — J.B.S. Haldane · 1951God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything. — Muhammad · 632
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God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything. — Muhammad · 632
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God. — Thornton Wilder · 1927
He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul. — Alexander Pope · 1733
Nature1 quote
Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly. — Isaac Newton · 1704
He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632
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God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677
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He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632
The sun1 quote
He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632
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Thunder is the voice of God, and, therefore, to be dreaded. — Increase Mather · 1684
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Thunder is the voice of God, and, therefore, to be dreaded. — Increase Mather · 1684