Laws Of Nature Quotes - Page 6

• All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition”, p.423, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

  John Polkinghorne

  Nature, Everything Happens For A Reason, Law

  "Science Finds God". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Gun, Self, Law

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• I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Rights, Self

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• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.

  Otto Hermann Kahn

  Self, Law, Democracy

  Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied liberty: the myth of "a rich man's war"”

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• [P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Confusion

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• [The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct summation of the totality of all experimental and observational evidence.

  M. King Hubbert

  Science, Law, Principles

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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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• Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

  William Harvey

  Nature, Science, Practice Of Medicine

  1987 Making It Happen: Reflections on Leadership.

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• The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

  H. A. L. Fisher

  Nature, Law, Progress

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• Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Moving, Law

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1880). “On the Origin of Species; Or, The Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. A Course of Six Lectures ...”

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• [The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality.

  Karl Popper

  Taken, Science, Law

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• ‎Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Relationship, Wise

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• The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of Nature are, to speak after the manner of men, Thoughts of God, in which all lives, that is to say, He is.

  Heinrich Zschokke

  Nature, Law, Environment

  "Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke".

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• The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist's job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

  Edward Teller

  Jobs, Responsibility, Science

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• [A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal can be consistently made from that remedy by those who were and still profess to be parties to it, but the appeal to the parties themselves having an authority above the Constitution or to the law of nature & of nature's God.

  James Madison

  Lying, Party, Law

  James Madison (1853). “Selections from the Private Correspondence of James Madison: From 1813 to 1836”, p.406

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• A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

  Joseph McCabe

  Law, Atheism, Way

  "The Existence of God". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1913.

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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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• It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

  Thomas Troward

  Law, Causes, Range

  Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Thinking, Law, Habit

  "Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

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

  Damon Lindelof

  Law, Fundamentals, Too Much

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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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