Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the … - Lord Kelvin

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Lord Kelvin

Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

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Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us. . . the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

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The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

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If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.

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Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

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It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect. . . . The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

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