I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws… — David Brin Copy Share Image
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution,… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation.… — James W. Skehan Copy Share Image
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be… — Catharine Macaulay Copy Share Image
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures..… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image