Quotes about Laws of Nature

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. Votes: 3

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. Votes: 3

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Votes: 3

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. Votes: 3

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. Votes: 3

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Votes: 3

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it. Votes: 2

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back. Votes: 2

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Votes: 2

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. Votes: 2

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. Votes: 2

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Votes: 2

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else. Votes: 2

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. Votes: 2

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. Votes: 2

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you. Votes: 2

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being. Votes: 2

Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature Votes: 2

Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned. Votes: 2

THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. Votes: 2

Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind. Votes: 2

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law. Votes: 1

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Votes: 1

Law is born from despair of human nature. Votes: 1

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. Votes: 1

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena. Votes: 1

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself. Votes: 1

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. Votes: 1

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. Votes: 1

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. Votes: 1

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. Votes: 1

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. Votes: 1

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. Votes: 1

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Votes: 1

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. Votes: 1

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. Votes: 1

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. Votes: 1

Nature never breaks her own laws. Votes: 0

Nature has no Laws "” only habits. Votes: 0

Prayer never changes the laws of nature. Votes: 0

The laws of nature are... thoughts of God Votes: 0

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. Votes: 0

Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth. Votes: 0

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature. Votes: 0

You can't change laws without first changing human nature. Votes: 0

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws. Votes: 0

Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world. Votes: 0

AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! Votes: 0

Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones. Votes: 0

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners. Votes: 0

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Heaven is space in universe that has unique laws of nature. Votes: 0

There are no laws of nature; there are habits of nature. Votes: 0

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you. Votes: 0

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. Votes: 0

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. Votes: 0

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. Votes: 0

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. Votes: 0

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. Votes: 0

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. Votes: 0

Miracles are caused by the laws of nature that are yet to be discovered. Votes: 0

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. Votes: 0

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. Votes: 0

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. Votes: 0

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. Votes: 0

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. Votes: 0

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides. Votes: 0

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. Votes: 0

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws. Votes: 0

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly! Votes: 0

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. Votes: 0

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! Votes: 0

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field. Votes: 0

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature. Votes: 0

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. Votes: 0

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. Votes: 0

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. Votes: 0

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey. Votes: 0

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. Votes: 0

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. Votes: 0

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. Votes: 0

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. Votes: 0

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder. Votes: 0

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. Votes: 0

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. Votes: 0

Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them. Votes: 0

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us. Votes: 0

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Votes: 0

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. Votes: 0

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. Votes: 0

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Votes: 0

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. Votes: 0

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Votes: 0

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. Votes: 0

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. Votes: 0

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. Votes: 0

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. Votes: 0

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature. Votes: 0

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. Votes: 0

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} Votes: 0

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life. Votes: 0

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe. Votes: 0

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. Votes: 0

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. Votes: 0

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. Votes: 0

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. Votes: 0

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. Votes: 0

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them. Votes: 0

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth. Votes: 0

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. Votes: 0

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Votes: 0

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws. Votes: 0

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. Votes: 0

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction. Votes: 0

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature. Votes: 0

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws. Votes: 0

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. Votes: 0

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. Votes: 0

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance Votes: 0

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. Votes: 0

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence. Votes: 0

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life. Votes: 0

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. Votes: 0

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Votes: 0

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. Votes: 0

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside. Votes: 0

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. Votes: 0

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things. Votes: 0

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space. Votes: 0

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent. Votes: 0

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory. Votes: 0

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. Votes: 0

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven. Votes: 0

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind. Votes: 0

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. Votes: 0

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point. Votes: 0

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature. Votes: 0

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work. Votes: 0

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting. Votes: 0

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet Votes: 0

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature. Votes: 0

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. Votes: 0

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Votes: 0

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results. Votes: 0

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne Votes: 0

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature Votes: 0

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws. Votes: 0

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves. Votes: 0

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it. Votes: 0

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience. Votes: 0

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. Votes: 0

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature. Votes: 0

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed. Votes: 0

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. Votes: 0

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. Votes: 0

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. Votes: 0

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society. Votes: 0

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator. Votes: 0

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Votes: 0

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws. Votes: 0

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration. Votes: 0

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. Votes: 0

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles. Votes: 0

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. Votes: 0

Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being due to natural processes. Votes: 0

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. Votes: 0

Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature. Votes: 0

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though. Votes: 0

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get." Votes: 0

[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven. Votes: 0

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them. Votes: 0

The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true. Votes: 0

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. Votes: 0

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence. Votes: 0

Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything. Votes: 0

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. Votes: 0

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0