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Quotes About Laws

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
~ Galileo Galilei
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
~ John von Neumann
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
~ James Prescott Joule
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
~ Herbert Read
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.
~ George Boole
In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.
~ Genevieve Behrend
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
~ Thomas Huxley
Nature never breaks her own laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.
~ Antony Flew
There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
~ Max Planck
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.
~ Galileo Galilei
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
~ Thomas Huxley
It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!
~ Enrico Fermi
Nature has no Laws — only habits.
~ Hakim Bey
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.
~ Brian Greene
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.
~ Mitch Horowitz
Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.
~ James Hansen
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
~ Joni Mitchell
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
~ Robert Lanza