Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
We live at the edge of the miraculous.
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.