Top 1200 Laws Of Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.

Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

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

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

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

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

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

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

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

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

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with them. I have studied many of the laws very carefully. We are still being governed by the same colonial laws which existed in British times. They have not been changed. Many of these laws need to be changed.