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What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary… — August Macke
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,… — Voltairine de Cleyre
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and… — Otto Hermann Kahn
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our… — Arthur David Ritchie
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may… — Unknown Author
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity. — Unknown Author
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. — Unknown Author
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels… — Arthur Compton
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In… — James Hutton
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to… — Rudolf Virchow
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws. — Rudolf Virchow
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem
Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they… — Tsung-Dao Lee
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances… — Unknown Author
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as… — John Constable
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one… — Paul Davies
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
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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