Laws of nature Quotes · Page 14

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. .…

— Thomas Jefferson

[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary…

— Samuel West

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states,…

— William H. Seward

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they…

— John Locke

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

— Karl Marx

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

— Jeff Greenfield

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is…

— Diane Setterfield

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite…

— Guido von List

“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.”

— John Archibald Wheeler

The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must…

— George Mason

All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although…

— Michio Kaku

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

— John Locke

Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.…

— Alan Lightman

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

— Nachman of Breslov

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

— George Mason

If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of…

— Hilary Kornblith

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

— Henry David Thoreau

With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by…

— Luc de Clapiers

You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If…

— George Lucas

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is…

— Dan Barker

This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But…

— Theodore von Karman

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

— Bridget Riley

When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all…

— John Hagelin