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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

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.

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

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.