New Orts #91

October 12 MMXXV

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
— Simone Weil (1909-43)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
— Albert Einstein, May 19, 1939

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
— Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Even mere existence, reduced to its most primary limits, was extraordinary enough to be exciting. Anything was magnificent as compared with nothing.
— G. K. Chesterton