The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors… — Denis Diderot 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
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She could envision Jesus out on the stormy waves calling her to join him, and not to depend on the laws of… — Lynn Byk Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“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 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
If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of… — Heinrich Zschokke Copy Share Image
We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles… Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the… — James Brown Copy Share Image
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive.… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image