Laws Quotes

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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that… — Theodor Schwann
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing… — Unknown Author
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of… — John Dalton
Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing… — Georgie Henley
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by… — Frederick Stanley Maude
We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. — John E. Jones III
We just need the laws to change - it's 2012," JWoww said to MTV News. "I want to see my best friend get married, and… — JWoww
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage… — Anthony Kennedy
In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large… — Bronislaw Malinowski
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief or disbelief in… — Hugo Black
Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the… — Merrill C. Tenney
Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart. — Adrian Rogers
I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were… — Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are… — Mark Twain
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. — Eugene Wigner
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study… — Unknown Author
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of… — Raoul Dufy

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