James Joseph Sylvester Quotes

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

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

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

The nature of things is dharma.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.

In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you worship as God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.