Balance Quote by Herbert Read

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful…

— Anonymous

“A common example from physics is of a pencil balanced on its point. It is symmetric, in that while it is balanced on its…

— Lee Smolin

“Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and structures.”

— John D. Barrow

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

— Dmitri Mendeleev

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

— Immanuel Kant

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

— Charles Darwin

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

— Learned Hand

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

— Baron de Montesquieu

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

— Mark Twain

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for…

— Dee Hock