Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
– David Gerrold
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- Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. – Luther Burbank
- I have memories but only a fool stores his past in the future. – David Gerrold
- Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. – Alexander Pope
- The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon
- The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon
- Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her. – Leonardo De Vinci
- In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet
- My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature. – Henry David Thoreau
- Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. – George Bernard
- The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. – Michel Montaigne