James Prescott Joule Quotes

The course of Nature is the art of God.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

I've said all along that God is in control.

No one has the last word other than God.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

God does not play dice.

As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.