“ Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. ”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1906). copy citation
| Author | Henry Adams |
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| Source | The Education of Henry Adams |
| Topic | humanity order nature chaos |
| Date | 1906 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2044/2044-h/2044-h.htm |
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“We cannot even infer them: "In the chaos behind sensations, in the 'beyond' of sense-impressions, we cannot infer necessity, order or routine, for these are concepts formed by the mind of man on this side of sense-impressions"; but we must infer chaos: "Briefly chaos is all that science can logically assert of the supersensuous." The kinetic theory of gas is an assertion of ultimate chaos. In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous; but since Bacon and Newton, English thought had gone on impatiently protesting that no one must try to know the unknowable at the same time that every one went on thinking about it.” source
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous; but since Bacon and Newton, English thought had gone on impatiently protesting that no one must try to know the unknowable at the same time that every one went on thinking about it.” source
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