Advantage Quote by Charles Darwin

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The present writer had occasion, some time ago, to call attention to the succession of layers of "laws of nature," each layer containing more…

— Eugene Wigner

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general…

— Charles Darwin

We want laws to be applied predictably.

— Nancy Gibbs

First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful…

— Max Horkheimer

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.

— Anonymous

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to…

— Stephen Hawking

Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by…

— Vera Stanley Alder

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far…

— Richard P. Feynman