¶ Order & Disorder
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Order & Disorder:
"We don’t have any idea of the relative depth of the heavens. The fact that the heavens seem to be a sort of array which we are familiar with is extremely deceiving. Where those stars really are we don’t hardly know at all. They seem to be rather disorderly in the sky. They may be in fabulously orderly array if we were able to get better kinds of reports. When we begin to get into the macrocosm this same kind of feeling about this disorderly chaos obtained for a long time. Men’s minds have been confused and therefore they have thought of the Universe as confused. Not being a nonsimultaneously conceptual affair gets the human mind into a lot of troubles. At any rate, man thought of the universe as chaotic. . . .
“We find that the portion of the Universe that is still chaos is rapidly diminishing. As fast as we get a telescope or microscope, the orderliness is discovered and it begins to be fairly much in evidence that the Universe was at all times orderly. The only idea of disorderliness was in the human mind. We are dealing in a finite Universe of extraordinary order and which was always orderly and the only thing which has ever been disorderly is in man’s mind.”
¶ Citations
- ClouJok Lecture 3 - pr. 104-105, 5 Jul’62
