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, law and/or nature:

    The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
    Louis Aragon (1897–1982)