Quotes about law
law understanding way
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it. Richard P. Feynman
law kind skepticism
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.
law curiosity important
To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.
law imagine physicist
There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.
law fundamentals physics
So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
law world obedience
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world? Richard Hooker
law voice heaven
Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
law people giving
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy. Richard Dawkins
law optics judgment
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. Richard Whately
law careers might
I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them. Richelle Mead
law magazines faces
Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts. Rebecca West
law shelter instinct
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.
law justice choices
The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.
law-of-attraction matter imagine
No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it. Richard Bach
law wallets seems
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. Russell Baker
law house lawyer
It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. Ruben Blades
law voice doubt
None within the sound of my voice should be in any doubt concerning what is moral and what is not, nor should any be in doubt about what is expected of us ... We have been and continue to be taught God's laws. Despite what you may see or hear elsewhere, these laws are unchanging. Thomas S. Monson
law people negative
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral. Thomas Sowell
law return principles
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
law matter immigration
If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
law ideas justice
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
law world response
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
law black vision
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.
law ideas creating
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration. Thomas Reid
law facts influence
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
law house ships
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
law opposites long
That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite. Robert Lanza
law existence grows
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
law community police
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
law mind bears
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances. Robert Greene
law museums world
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. Robert Ballard
law catholic libertarian
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'. Robert Anton Wilson
law violence rich
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.