"The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe."

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If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.

— Charles Babbage