Law of Nature

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 Nature, law of, law and/or nature:

    “Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
    —Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)

    “A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
    And never yet could frame my will to it,
    And therefore frame the law unto my will.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Flushed with new life, the crowd flows back again:
    And all is tangled talk and mazy motion—
    Much like a waving field of golden grain,
    Or a tempestuous ocean.
    And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
    For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,
    To ceaseless din and mindless merriment
    And waste of shoes and floors.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)