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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law...… — Joseph LeConte
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the… — Louis Pasteur
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be… — Erwin Schrodinger
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will… — Steven Weinberg
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from… — Max Wertheimer
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact… — Bertrand Russell
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to… — Charles Darwin
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
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
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the… — James Clerk Maxwell
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...… — John Stuart Mill
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of… — Thomas Kuhn
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only… — Richard P. Feynman
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted… — John Playfair
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — Immanuel Kant
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce… — James Clerk Maxwell

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