Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
Electromagnetic theory
Philosophical or theological reflection on the limits of science.
Undated, but consistent with his later writings.
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