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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. -- C. S. Lewis
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. -- Euclid
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. -- Henry Adams
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. -- David Gerrold
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. -- Michael Faraday
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. -- Edmund Burke
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it. -- Thomas Hobbes
Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back. -- Camille
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. -- Charles Darwin
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. -- Henry David Thoreau
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. -- Hosea Ballou
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else. -- Peyton C. March
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. -- Samuel Adams
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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 be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being. -- Albert Einstein
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature -- Naomi Klein
Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned. -- Beth Moore
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. -- William Blackstone
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind. -- Alexander Hamilton
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. -- Samuel Butler
Law is born from despair of human nature. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. -- Luc de Clapiers
The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself. -- Damon Lindelof
I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena. -- David Gross
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -- Maria Mitchell
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. -- William Law
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. -- Jacob Bronowski
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. -- Brian Greene
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. -- Thomas Jefferson
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. -- Jack Kingston
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. -- Edmund Burke
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. -- Tom Shadyac
Nature never breaks her own laws. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Prayer never changes the laws of nature. -- Dan Barker
Nature's laws have to supersede man's law. -- Mary Beth Whitehead
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The laws of nature are... thoughts of God -- Heinrich Zschokke
Cats do not abide by the laws of nature. -- Charlie Day
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws. -- Charles Darwin
Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. -- Howard Lindsay
Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
You can't change laws without first changing human nature. -- Neal Shusterman
AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature. -- Pat Buchanan
Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world. -- Toba Beta
Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! -- Lord Byron
The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners. -- James Cook
Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones. -- Charles Kingsley
Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you. -- Nachman of Breslov
Heaven is space in universe that has unique laws of nature. -- Toba Beta
There are no laws of nature; there are habits of nature. -- David Wolfe
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. -- Thomas Huxley
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. -- Charles Simmons
What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature. -- Rumi
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. -- Immanuel Kant
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. -- Thomas Huxley
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. -- Michel de Montaigne
Miracles are caused by the laws of nature that are yet to be discovered. -- Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. -- Luther Burbank
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. -- Michel de Montaigne
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. -- George Boole
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly! -- Enrico Fermi
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. -- Herman Melville
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! -- George Bernard Shaw
You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature. -- Immanuel Kant
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. -- Alexander Pope
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. -- Galileo Galilei
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. -- Michael Faraday
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. -- Baron de Montesquieu
There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey. -- Toby Keith
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. -- Honore de Balzac
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. -- Warren De la Rue
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. -- George Carlin
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. -- William Blackstone
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder. -- Bill Nye
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. -- Alexander Pope
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them. -- Harold S. Kushner
But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us. -- Albert Einstein
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! -- Alexander Pope
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. -- Freeman Dyson
Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. -- Ernst Haeckel
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. -- Antoni Gaudi
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. -- Seneca the Younger
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. -- Antoni Gaudi
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. -- Ahmed Zewail
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. -- Isaac Newton
The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. -- George Mason
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. -- Ernst Haeckel
We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature. -- Warren G. Harding
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. -- Edward O. Wilson
Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life. -- Herbert M. Shelton
Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe. -- Emile Coue
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. -- Alfred Harker
[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. -- Edward Gibbon
[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. -- Greg Iles
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. -- Dan Brown
In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them. -- Genevieve Behrend
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth. -- Dan Shechtman
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. -- Bridget Riley
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. -- Deepak Chopra
When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction. -- Suzy Kassem
People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature. -- Alfred North Whitehead

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