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Laws of nature

«If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.»
«Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could b»
«Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.»
«But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature»
«Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes»
«Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!»
«He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature»
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
«It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.»
«A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.»

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