Laws Of Nature Quotes - Page 9

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Michel de Montaigne

Law, Age, Limits

Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.151

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In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

James Brown

Religious, Moving, Sea

James Brown (2006). “You Shall See His Glory in the Morning!”, p.37, Xulon Press

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Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.

Thomas Jefferson

Mean, Men, Air

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Dream, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

John Adams

Law, Might, Revolution

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.374

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Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.

John Locke

Men, Law, Action

John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.305

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law, Opposites, States

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

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Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.

Ray Dalio

Life, Successful, Player

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You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.

George Lucas

Law, Choices, Forever

"Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very few of them are compatible, and very few of them are very compatible with the laws of nature.

George Lucas

Dream, Law, America

"Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

Nachman of Breslov

Law, Asks

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The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.

William Morris Davis

Law, Lapses, Foundation

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To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

John Locke

Men, Thinking, Order

John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.189

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[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

John Locke

War, Men, Should Have

John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: (An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government), And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Baruch Spinoza

Communication, Law, Evil

"Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by B. Spinoza, ch. 2, Of Natural Right, 1883.

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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

John Locke

Law, Common, Reason

John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.279, CUP Archive

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The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Truth, Law

Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.381

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We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ignorance, Law, Atoms

Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation. ... My studies are performed with the confidence that God will not capriciously confound scientific results by "slipping in" a miracle.

James W. Skehan

God, Nature, Science

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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson

Rights, Law, People

Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

Tertullian

Christian, Sex, Passion

Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1309, Jazzybee Verlag

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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.

David Hume

Law, Miracle, Facts

David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.93

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

H. G. Wells

Law, Intellectual, Trouble

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.79, Delphi Classics

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Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Peter Kropotkin

Struggle, Animal, Law

"Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution". "The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest". Book by Upton Sinclair, 1915.

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Time is the supreme Law of nature.

Arthur Eddington

Law, Time Management, Supreme

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