Quotes About Laws

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

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

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.

Magick is the manipulation of the Laws of Cause-and-Effect in accordance with one's Will, via states of Higher Consciousness.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.