"Recomposition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that one of his arguments at least requires qualification. The Professor, in maintaining that so-called miraculous events are possible, although the evidence adduced is not sufficient to render them probable, refers to the possibility of changing water into wine by molecular recomposition. He tells us that, "if carbon can be got out of hydrogen or oxygen, the conversion of water into wine comes within range of scientific possibility." But in maintaining that miracles (so-called) have a prospective possibility, Professor Huxley loses sight—at least, so it appears to me—of ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley |
