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• Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

  John Stuart Mill

  Nature, Science, Political

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.1092, e-artnow

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• The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

  Max Planck

  Science, Expression, Causality

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Inspiration, Lines

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

  Aristotle

  Science, Medicine, Principles

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• I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

  Walter Sutton

  Science, Attention, Division

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• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Lying, Science, Men

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• In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Science, Expression, Human Nature

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• The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Science, Illustration

  John Burroughs (1895). “Fresh Fields”

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• The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Science, Endurance

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations". 1988.

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• The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.

  Richard Owen

  Science, Animal, Groups

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• The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Ideas, Differences

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.74

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• The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Unique, Important

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• The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Understanding, Intuition

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Science, Two

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• Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

  Lucretius

  Strong, Science, Lifetime

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• Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

  Clyde Kluckhohn

  Science, Discovery, Principles

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• [The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality.

  Karl Popper

  Taken, Science, Forever

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• A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Bird, Aviation

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Funny, Complaining, Speak

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• 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.

  William Blackstone

  God, Country, Authority

  Sir William Blackstone (1973). “The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.29, Springer

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• Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

  Walter Bagehot

  Time, Wind, Cities

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.175, Lulu.com

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• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Firsts, Parkinson's

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• God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

  Marianne Williamson

  Freedom, Thinking, Needs

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• Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.

  Sandra Postel

  Philosophy, Science, Agency

  Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst

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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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