Quote#Nature
Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from…
Quote byArthur Balfour · 1848–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Theism and humanism.
English (original)
Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not. /.../ The physical course of nature does not merely fail to indicate design, it seems loudly to proclaim its absence.
— Arthur Balfour
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