Law of Nature may refer to:
- Physical law, a scientific generalization based upon empirical observation
- Natural law, any of a number of doctrines in moral, political and legal theory
Famous quotes containing the words law of, law and/or nature:
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
“The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)
“Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)