“Langley seemed prepared for anything, even for an indeterminable number of universes interfused — physics stark mad in metaphysics.”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Source: 1960 - 1970, Interview with David Sylvester 2. Spring 1965, p. 259
“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)
“Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 102)
“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”
Burns (1828).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
"The Quantum State of the Universe", Nuclear Physics (1984) <!-- B239, p. 258 -->
Context: Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted. That may be so, but it could also have made it evolve in a completely arbitrary and random manner. Yet all the evidence is that it evolves in a regular way according to certain laws. It would therefore seem reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the boundary conditions.
