World of Forces
If the world may be thought of as a certain definite quantity of force and as a certain definite number of centers of force–and every other representation remains . . . useless–it follows that, in the great dice game of existence, it must pass through a calculable number of combinations. In infinite time, every possible combination would at some time or another be realized; more: it would be realized an infinite number of times. And since between every combination and its next recurrence all other possible combinations would have to take place, . . . a circular movement of absolutely identical series is thus demonstrated. . . . This conception is not simply a mechanistic conception; for if it were that, it would not condition an infinite recurrence of identical cases by a final state. Because the world has not reached this, mechanistic theory must be considered an imperfect and merely provisional hypothesis.’
Friedrich Nietzsche