The number and variety of the laws which we find established in the universe is so great, that it would be idle to endeavor to enumerate them. In their operation they are combined and intermixed in incalculable and endless complexity, influencing and modifying each other's effects in every direction.

The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation (Treatise III), Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology