An orderly world is a beautiful world. Beauty
consists in patterns of order. Total chaos is ugly. The movement of the
stars in accord with regular laws is a beautiful dance. The medievals
thought of the planets as carried by spheres through the sky, and their
regular movements producing the ‘music of the spheres’ whose beauty
humans casually ignored, although it was one of the most beautiful
things there is. God has reason to make an orderly world, because beauty
is a good thing — in my view whether or not anyone ever observes it,
but certainly if only one person ever observes it.
- Richard Swinburne
