Laws Of Nature Quotes - Page 4

• Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

  Max Beerbohm

  Strength, Nature, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.95, New York Review of Books

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• Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

  Charlie Day

  Cat, Law, Philadelphia

  "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac and Dennis Break Up". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the alternative futures that may exist relative to a given moment is a physically possible continuation of the state of things at the moment. Or, if you like, we may say that determinism is the thesis that only one continuation of the state of things at a given moment is consistent with the laws of nature.

  Peter van Inwagen

  Unique, Law, Alternatives

  Peter Van Inwagen (1993). “Metaphysics”

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• Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

  Lucretia Mott

  Wise, Law, Sorrow

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• Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

  Bridget Riley

  Keys, Law, Enquiry

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• The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Cheer, Growing Up, Sacrifice

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Law, Gains, Bless

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• For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.

  Brian Ellis

  God, Religious, Science

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• What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

  Rumi

  Law, Together, Doe

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• It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

  William Golding

  Religious, Believe, Law

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• Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

  John Constable

  Nature, Philosophy, Science

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black

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• It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Law, Common, Inferiors

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• If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Cutting, Simple, Law

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• Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Lying, Men, Law

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• To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

  Dan Barker

  Running, Prayer, Thinking

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen it from the beginning of the ages. If a being with such a mind existed, we could play no game of chance with him; we should always lose.

  Henri Poincare

  Powerful, Science, Law

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• The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

  Thomas Reid

  Science, Law, House

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.527, Georg Olms Verlag

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• There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

  Arthur Eddington

  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology.
  Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Life, Writing, Science

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• Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  God, Science, Thinking

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• Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Science, Men, Sight

  Adam Sedgwick (1850). “A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge”, p.45

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• Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law... Not one jot or tittle of the laws of Nature are unfulfilled. I do not believe it is possible to state this fact too strongly... Everything happens according to law, and, since law is the expression of Divine will, everything happens according to Divine will, i.e. is in some sense ordained, decreed.

  Joseph LeConte

  Believe, Science, Expression

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• How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, Discovery, Law

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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