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What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!
— Henry David Thoreau
In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.
— Stephen Hawking
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
— Mark Twain
How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!
— Mark Twain
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get Him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
— Mark Twain
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!
— Ayn Rand
Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that, within the limits set by the uncertainty principle, tell us how the universe will develop with time, if we know its state at any one time. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.
— Stephen Hawking
Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.
— Stephen Hawking
One could define God as the embodiment of the laws of nature.
— Stephen Hawking
These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.
— Stephen Hawking
Most laws of nature exist as part of a larger, interconnected system of laws.
— Stephen Hawking