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Quotes from Suggestions for Thought : Selections and Commentaries — Florence Nightingale

1820–1910 England

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Law is the continuous manifestation of God's presence — not reason for believing him absent.

Suggestions for Thought : Selections and Commentaries (1994)

Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever.
Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.

Suggestions for Thought : Selections and Commentaries (1994)

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