John Dryden Quotes

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Nature did all things well

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

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.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

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

Things have a way of falling into place.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.