This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines,… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“ Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's very sad that activist judges, who speak at length about the injustices of the past when the rule of law was… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
“The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.” — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the… — David L. Bazelon Copy Share Image
The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
“The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.” — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed. — Roy Bean Copy Share Image
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it. — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe. — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think the American justice system has a lot more issues than the European justice system, especially the Scottish justice system. We… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
LAWS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN BUT PUNISHMENT IS THE TOOL USE TO AMEND A BROKEN LAW. — CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN Copy Share Image
...the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.... — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
“Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means… — Robin D. Hart Copy Share Image
As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
After I went back to college, I discovered that you could be around intelligent people who don't care if you're a woman.… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image