To put it another way, destruction itself is the principle by which the universe operates.

Finally, the alchemists practiced their art: they actively experimented with chemicals and made observations and theories about how the universe operated.

The universe doesn't operate with us in mind.

We may find that there are, in actuality, no universal laws, that the universe may operate on pure randomness, or worse.

If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.

Quantum Logic reflected the way the universe operated at a deep level.

She said it was wrong to think that the whole universe operated by rules we could understand.

These may be generating the power that makes the universe operate.

The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity.

To her, the universe unfailingly operated by the rules of logic and reason, and no mystery could long endure once attacked in a logical fashion.