Biology Quote by David Papineau

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according…

— Lysander Spooner

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted…

— Frederick Soddy

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

— Aaron Betsky

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this…

— Ernst Boris Chain

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

— Victor Hugo

Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that…

— Michael Faraday

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is…

— Paul Davies

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

— Alfred North Whitehead

In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent…

— Clifford Allbutt

The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order…

— Frederick Soddy