Laws Of Nature Quotes - Page 13

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

Bryan Cranston

Law, People, Right Now

"Emmys 2012: 'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Season 5, a 'Bad' Movie, and the Kardashians". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 23, 2012.

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One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.

F. C. S. Schiller

Science, Discovery, Law

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We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.

Jimmy Carter

Nature, Animal, Law

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Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

Michel Foucault

Work, Fall, Men

Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.55, Vintage

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

Dream, Nature, Men

Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Ethan Allen

Order, Law, Tyrants

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There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a law of nature. That's what Latin American bishops were doing when they formed base communities. They were trying to get peasants to recognize that you can take your fate into your own hands. That's what the civil-rights movement did here. That's what the women's movement did.

Noam Chomsky

Spiritual, Latin, Fate

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

Henry Walter Bates

Nature, Writing, Butterfly

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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence, thus condemning humanity to an indefinite future of misery and poverty. We can now begin to hope and, I believe, know that Malthus was expressing not a law of nature, but merely the limitation then of scientific and social wisdom. The truth or falsity of his prediction will depend now, with the tools we have, on our own actions, now and in the years to come.

John F. Kennedy

Believe, Future, Science

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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton C. March

Love, Happiness, Karma

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One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.

Allen Dulles

Freedom, Men, Law

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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

David Chalmers

Character, Thinking, Our World

"Zombies and consciousness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2011.

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There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Stars, Law, Sky

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There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.

James Otis

Freedom, Men, Law

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... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

Richard P. Feynman

Sorry, Science, Law

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It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Law, Coward

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Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Thomas Huxley

Education, Teaching, Law

Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

George Sand

Heart, Law, Two

George Sand, Jane Minot Sedgwick (1893). “Fadette (La Petite Fadette): Tr. from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick, with an Etching by E.Abot”, Boston, Little, Brown [c1893]

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Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Karma, Self, Law

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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

Summer, Spring, Book

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The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

James Otis

Men, Law, White

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I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation.

Malcolm X

Rights, Self, Law

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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

Lisa See

Mother, Suicide, Children

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If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

Noam Chomsky

Disappointment, Hard Work, Law

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self, Law, Opposites

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays: First Series”, p.105, Sheba Blake Publishing

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