Harold Kushner Quotes

Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable in society is the absence of all order?

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

I do not want to give you artificial and systematic laws, invented by man; only to bring you back under the unique laws of nature and order, which command to the heart and do not tyrannize the free will.

In studying nature we have not to inquire how God the Creator may, as He freely wills, use His creatures to work miracles and thereby show forth His power: we have rather to inquire what Nature with its immanent causes can naturally bring to pass.

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.