Science, which is the logic of nature, demands proportion between the house and its foundation. Theology sometimes builds weighty structures on a dou… - John Tyndall

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.

Some years ago I found myself in discussion with a friend who entertained the notion that the general tendency of things in this world is towards equilibrium, the result of which would be peace and blessedness to the human race. My notion, was that equilibrium meant... death. No motive power is to be got from heat, save during its fall from a higher to a lower temperature, as no power is to be got from water save during its descent from a higher to a lower level. Thus also life consists, not in equilibrium, but in the passage towards equilibrium. In man it is the leap from the potential through the actual to repose.