Code Quote by Henry James Sumner Maine

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

— Robert Lanza

There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable…

— Joseph LeConte

I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you…

— Adam Frank

“Many concepts and ideas become laws in time, like the laws of physics. In time, many of these same concepts lose validity in favor…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

— Eliphas Levi

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

— Eugene Wigner

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do,…

— Thomas Hobbes

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

— Immanuel Kant