Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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.
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.