Laws Of Nature Quotes - Page 5

• It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Hot

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.14, Hamilton Books

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• This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Unique, Law

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Law, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.341, Princeton University Press

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• Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

  Hosea Ballou

  Law, Obedience, Social

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• Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

  Thomas More

  Men, Rights, Law

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.38, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical element in us, - do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.

  James Martineau

  Nature, Agency, Law

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 431), 1895.

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• But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

  Karl Marx

  Law, Capitalist, Negation

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?

  Konrad Lorenz

  Stars, Law, Two

  "On Aggression" by Konrad Lorenz, (Ch. XII), 1963.

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• For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.

  Lucretius

  Children, Dark, Law

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 55 - 61 (tr. Rouse),

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• Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Forever, Shapes

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Law, Data

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 279, 1989.

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• Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Men, Law, Understanding

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Law, Wonder

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• When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Perfect, Mind

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Law

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• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  Damon Lindelof

  Law, Fundamentals, Too Much

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• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

  Dee Hock

  Law, Income, Substance

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• There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

  Toby Keith

  Horse, Order, Law

  Song: No Honor Among Thieves, Album: Boomtown

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• The first day of the brand new calendar year is an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find own life charged emotionally with a refined energy & enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and the rules of the game called life.

  Anuj

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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• The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Practice, Meditation

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• Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

  Guido von List

  Life, Religious, Nature

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• No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Law, Recognition, Has Beens

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• But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

  David Hume

  Believe, Men, Law

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.139, tredition

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• Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

  Immanuel Kant

  Country, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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• But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Would Be, Answers

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