General Laws Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
— Luther Burbank
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that…
— Immanuel Kant
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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
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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
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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
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
— Charles Darwin
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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
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In general, laws are tailored to suit the needs of the ones making them.
— Mariana Fulger
Who Wrote These General Laws Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 General Laws Quotes as follows: