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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank
Nature
,
Truth
,
Knowledge
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Eugenio Montale
Time
,
Today
,
Fire
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
Jared Diamond
Long
,
Happen
,
Country
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
Guy Kawasaki
Country
,
Coming
,
Europe
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold
Nature
,
Mean
,
Immune
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
Criss Angel
Nature
,
Reality
,
Become
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Dick Francis
Life
,
Ignore
,
Simply
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Dora Russell
Marriage
,
Human
,
Police
If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.
Ray Comfort
Faith
,
Understand
,
Read
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.
Ray Comfort
Truth
,
Justice
,
Done
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.
Arthur Eddington
Nature
,
Mind
,
Human
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
Arthur Eddington
Mind
,
May
,
Succeed
When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
Bobby Jindal
Law
,
Sense
,
Makes
Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
Bobby Jindal
Live
,
Same
,
Else
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
Larry Elder
Work
,
System
,
Connected
So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
Vicente Fox
Government
,
State
,
Security
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
Jim Fowler
Nature
,
Respect
,
Future
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
Christopher Isherwood
Attitude
,
Saying
,
Away
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
Orson Pratt
God
,
Against
,
Making
In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
Kamala Harris
Country
,
Easy
,
While
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
Martin Van Buren
Business
,
Long
,
Country
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
Caleb Cushing
Great
,
America
,
Found
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.
Jim Sensenbrenner
President
,
Congress
,
United
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
George Savile
Speak
,
Themselves
,
Complain
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile
Three
,
Break
,
Understood
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
Paul Davies
Job
,
Off
,
Student
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
Paul Davies
Nature
,
Power
,
Feeling
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.
Paul Davies
Nature
,
Science
,
Find
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
Paul Davies
Nature
,
Truth
,
Universe
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.
Paul Davies
Nature
,
Science
,
Universe
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