"
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the
universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time--life and death -- stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the
laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out."
"Nature uses only the longest
threads to
weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the
organization of the entire
tapestry."
--
Feynman
The Beauty of a Flower