“There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole — a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.”

"On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 279
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1881)

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