The purpose creates the machine.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

The purpose creates the machine.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.