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I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

— Murray Gell-Mann

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Dee Hock

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

— Arthur Eddington

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

— Rene Descartes

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

— Mary Beth Whitehead

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

— Dmitri Mendeleev

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

— Herbert Read

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Rupert Sheldrake

Laws are subordinate to custom.

— Plautus