Laws Of Nature Quotes - Page 12

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Opinion, Ends

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• The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

  Edward Gibbon

  Animal, Law, Return

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.86

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Men, Law

  Edward Gibbon (1855). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.89

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• The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Two, Foundation

  William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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• Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Law, Political

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• All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

  Isaac Newton

  Law, Different, Density

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Expanding Universe, Law, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• 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.

  Elliott Sober

  Hands, Law, Natural

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Law, Excellence, Want

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature'. It is not a little instructive that so similar a law [the fundamental theorem of natural selection] should hold the supreme position among the biological sciences.

  Ronald Fisher

  Thinking, Law, Fundamentals

  "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.

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

  Antonio Gaudi

  Fear, Law, Support

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

  David Gerrold

  Mean Girls, Law, Understanding

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Law, Optimism

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• 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

  Life, Player, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

  John Paul Jones

  Winning, Law, Risk

  "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• 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.

  Jack Kingston

  Marriage, Law, People

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

  Robert Lanza

  Law, Existence, Spectrum

  "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Nature, Law, Different

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• Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

  Maria Mitchell

  Nature, Science, Law

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

  Henri Poincare

  Law, Succeed, Moments

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• By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sympathy, Heart, Law

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The Way of Salvation and of Perfection”, p.138, Aeterna Press

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• 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.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Law, Taste

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Independent, Self

  Letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789.

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• Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moving, 4th Of July, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772”, p.92

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