General Laws Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. — Luther Burbank
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. — John Ruskin
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to… — Thucydides
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from… — Samuel Johnson
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of… — Jacques Monod
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that… — Immanuel Kant
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action.… — Mao Zedong
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty… — John Herschel
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. — Charles Darwin
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by… — William Whewell
In general, laws are tailored to suit the needs of the ones making them. — Mariana Fulger

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