| 单词 | law of nature |
| 例句 | The result is that there is no agreement on how to answer the question ‘What is a law of nature?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Our God is bigger than the facts. He’s not limited by the laws of nature, science, or the almighty dollar.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The modern idea of laws of nature is a by-product of Descartes’ philosophy, for Descartes was the first person to treat the laws of nature as being what knowledge of nature was all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is remarkable that we have all accepted this, without hooting, as though it simply conformed to a law of nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1700 the idea that the study of the physical world is all about facts, experiments, evidence, theories and laws of nature had become well established. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By a similar process in German, the rarer term, Naturgesetz, comes to mean primarily law of nature, while the commoner term, Naturrecht, continues to mean natural law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some think that the laws of nature are then randomly reshuffled, that the kind of physics and chemistry that orders this universe represent only one of an infinite range of possible natural laws. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, the Greeks and the Romans were incapable of formulating the idea of laws of nature, and without them they could not develop modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Third, how do laws of nature work as causes? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is hardly surprising that there is a book on the Scientific Revolution entitled Nature and Nature’s Laws, since the discovery of laws of nature is one of the Scientific Revolution’s most remarkable achievements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Broadly speaking, there are two schools: one holds that laws of nature are simply regularities which we identify in nature; the other that they are necessary features of the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some historians of science want to argue that you cannot have laws of nature without voluntarism, and you cannot have voluntarism without an omnipotent creator God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All I had to do was let the unforgiving laws of nature run their course and I would be saved. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He kneels in the center of a thick mass of people, everyone touching everyone because one of the laws of nature is that theater people love to be touchy. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Bacon writes of ‘the law of nature and the mutual contracts of things’: he is paraphrasing Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Charles isn’t remembered for his aeronautic stunts, but for the law of nature that bears his name. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This tangle is reflected in the modern philosophical discussion of laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On most questions Descartes is a rationalist, but as far as the laws of nature are concerned he appears to want to have it both ways. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There is a puzzle here, because the standard alternative to voluntarism is rationalism, and a rationalist would hold that the laws of nature, like the laws of mathematics, exist because they are necessary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Where did Descartes’ conception of a law of nature come from? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Boyle, too, evidently thought there was only a small number of ‘more Catholic laws’, and these were the laws of nature properly so called. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The idea of an omnipotent creator God may help in formulating a theory of laws of nature, but it seems wrong to claim that it is a necessary precondition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Lucretius the attraction of iron by a magnet takes place according to a law of nature, and species breed true, dogs producing dogs and cats cats, according to a law of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was against the laws of nature for her to lie in bed with the sun so high. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus some disciples of Newton were prepared to follow the logic of natural law through to its conclusion and maintain that everything that happens happens in accordance with the laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As a result, for us moderns, laws of nature are scientific laws and natural laws are moral laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Might there be a universe in which Descartes’ third law of nature actually holds? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Newton kicked up a fuss about the use of the word ‘hypothesis’; but there was no comparable debate about theories, facts, or laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A foedus is a league, or compact, but it is often used as synonymous with lex, and Renaissance commentators on Lucretius interpreted him as talking about the laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The laws of its interaction are the three laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are similar galaxies, as if stamped from the same mold, all over the Cosmos because these simple laws of nature—gravity and the conservation of angular momentum— are the same all over the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I take ‘laws of nature’ and ‘scientific laws’ to be synonymous, although I am aware that some philosophers want to use these as labels to distinguish two different types of law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What is important for our immediate purposes is the way in which his discussion echoes through the later literature on the law of nature, for of course Montaigne was read by all the educated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The night remained calm and still, but Matthias and Constance stayed alert, both knowing if they failed to observe this rudimentary law of nature, the penalty could be fatal. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z If laws of nature are something less than mathematical truths and something more than perceived regularities, then it would seem clear that they exist only because God has chosen to make them apply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So when we talk about nature’s laws we can be talking about laws governing human behaviour or laws governing nature—‘natural law’ and ‘laws of nature’, as we now say. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The intellectual apparatus of the new science—facts, experiments, theories, laws of nature, evidence—did not establish its worth by philosophical arguments; its success depended upon the fact that, in practice, it produced good results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was the first really universal law of nature ever propounded by a human mind, which is why Newton is regarded with such universal esteem. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This is voluntarism, and it seems to follow naturally from the idea of laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But we live in an in-between universe, where things change, but according to patterns, rules, or, as we call them, laws of nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When we write of ‘laws of nature’ the word ‘laws’, too, is being used in a metaphorical sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Long before Descartes we can find references to laws of nature in a scientific context, and scholars have struggled to disentangle the origins of the concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Having said this, I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The laws of nature are the same throughout the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Descartes’ conception of the laws of nature was deeply influential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Not plants that contradict the laws of nature.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It is certainly true that the arguments of the nominalists are theocentric, but as we shall see this is not true for other ways of thinking about laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Consequently, there are no Aristotelian laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But to understand where Descartes’ preoccupation with laws of nature comes from we must consider a text that has not previously been discussed in this context. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So far, in tracing the idea of a law of nature, we have been following an established line of argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This brings us to our fourth and final problem: Does God override the laws of nature? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Galileo makes only three references to the laws of nature, on each occasion when he is arguing against the theological objections to Copernicanism; there are no laws of nature in his more properly scientific works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is easy to see that only a very restricted range of laws of nature are consistent with galaxies and stars, planets, life and intelligence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Secondly, it is a question about intellectual tools: the concept of laws of nature, for example, shapes the sorts of questions scientists ask and the sorts of answers nature provides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We move in accord with laws of nature that Kepler first discovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The laws of nature and TV would seem to be against him. 'Mad Men' achieved high drama without all the dead bodies 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z An evanescent realm of hedonism where nothing has enough substance to be grounded by the laws of nature, the “floating world” — or ukiyo, in the original Japanese — is hardly a new target for Amis. ‘Lionel Asbo,’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-18T00:06:07Z To create his wood structures he seeks “inspiration in the deeper laws of nature, which is an unbelievable treasure-house of ingenious structures, forms, colors, systems and chance.” Review: In Venice, Feting Architecture (or Is It Art?) 2010-09-03T14:07:00Z Ms. Maye, who bounded onto the stage like a young woman in a hurry, continues to defy the laws of nature. Music Review: Michael Feinstein and Marilyn Maye at Feinstein’s 2012-09-05T22:09:12Z Shifting into a cosmically fantastical mode, Mr. Carlin imagines this disaster leading to the breakdown of the molecular structure of the atmosphere and changing the laws of nature. A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z This too is a new look at the laws of nature. David Lang, Michael Gordon and So Percussion toy with minds 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z An omnipotent creator could, of course, facilitate Noah's task by suspending or changing the laws of nature. Questions about Noah's Ark that may bug creationists 2011-01-18T14:15:10Z "Abiding by the laws of nature, and first and foremost by the law that prohibits killing a person, will probably become a reason for eliminating these people from management positions." Poland asks: should a doctor serve God, or patients? 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The very notion of a “law of nature” was at first a theological idea. The Twain Shall Meet 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The first of this season's Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella new music series was devoted to two big percussion pieces: David Lang's "the so-called laws of nature" and Michael Gordon's "Timber." David Lang, Michael Gordon and So Percussion toy with minds 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Indeed, his book, a rewarding read, is at its most fascinating when describing how in China the laws of nature seem to have embedded in them a moral precept. Water, water, everywhere 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Anyway, in violation of all laws of nature, Amy Foetus is pregnant. The Secret Life of the American Teenager | Cable girl 2010-04-06T05:45:00Z More discoveries will also help researchers use gravitational waves to test relativity in extreme environments—possibly confirming the theory or even pointing to a deeper law of nature. Black holes are colliding: Scientists confirm more ripples in spacetime 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Suffice to say, all hell breaks loose in a series of vivid, frightening ways that scream "Don't mess with the laws of nature." 'Lazarus Effect' breathes some life into medical thriller 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Department of Parks and Recreation put on a good show about the laws of nature and metamorphosis. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Moreover, as Doctor Strange becomes righteous, looking to save the world manipulating the space-time continuum even if it means breaking the laws of nature. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z The staggered approach made the steady ascents and descents through the pitches seem less like composer-directed themes and more like seesawing laws of nature, perfectly in balance. Review: A Sublime New Direction for Andrew Norman in Los Angeles 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in certain ways. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z “I gravitate to a capital as a primary law of nature,” Adams wrote a friend. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z He started studying the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, India and China — including fragments of musical scores — to see how their people viewed the laws of nature and interpreted them as music. After 30 Albums and 3 Recent Prizes, a Jazzman Flirts With the Mainstream 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Drawing on Rortyan pragmatism, Redmond insists that natural disasters are poignant only from our human point of view and "not because they are breaking an imaginary law of nature". Poetry and Privacy by John Redmond – review 2013-06-21T17:30:00Z One idea is to explore how the laws of nature shape and restrict living organisms. Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z The demiurge presides over a world that suffers under the tyranny of the laws of nature, and Urizen is as imprisoned by the constraints of space and time as are the individuals who follow him. William Blake's picture of God 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z Having acted against the laws of nature by restoring Kun’s life, Chun must protect him as the order of the worlds begins to unravel. Review: ‘Big Fish & Begonia’ Animates the Drama of Mortality 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z “Even in such an old and successful business, change is the law of nature,” he said. Pursuits: A Culinary Pilgrimage to Punjab 2014-03-18T20:25:02Z Mozart managed to transpose universal laws of nature into his music. Believe it or not: News of the weird from the year in classical music 2010-12-22T21:46:07Z It is a law of nature that there is never too much cowbell. Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But the half-dozen or so people we care about struggle for survival with what the conventions of genre if not the laws of nature assure us are reasonably good odds. Review: ‘San Andreas,’ Dwayne Johnson Rushes to Rescue His Collapsing World 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He calls it "Yellowjacket" and, being a bit on the power-mad side, tells everyone who will listen that he's "transcended the laws of nature." Marvel comes up big with playful 'Ant-Man' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Maybe the game is rigged, or maybe the laws of nature just work that way. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The ensemble’s first major commission, Mr. Lang’s “the so-called laws of nature,” balanced humor and poise in a series of movements that toyed with the notion of unison and discord. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z As she protested, as though witness to some catastrophic transgression of the universe's fundamental laws of nature: "This cannot happen!" Rewind TV: Homeland; Wonderland: I Was Once a Beauty Queen – review 2012-10-13T23:06:22Z There are symmetries in the laws of nature that are not observed in the actual phenomena. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z The building that houses the spot where “the laws of nature are defied” features a gorilla on the roof, a vintage VW Bug crashed into the side and an eerie-looking clown over the entrance. West Virginia: Wild and wonderful and, okay, a little bit weird 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “Well, yes, you might have grown up; but have you outgrown the laws of nature which govern every human being’s life?” Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z “Twisting around ten thousand times but always going eastward,” said Confucius: it seemed a law of nature. Water, water, everywhere 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Key looked into the eyes of the six justices sitting for the case, four of whom were slave owners, and announced that “by the law of nature, all men are free.” “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z "And that," says Schützhold, "would be a clear indication of additional, previously unknown laws of nature." Tracking down quantum flickering of the vacuum 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z A recently published scientific article proposes a sweeping new law of nature, approaching the matter with dry, clinical efficiency that still reads like poetry. The "missing law" of nature was here all along 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z A paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings. Scientists, philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Similarly, maybe there’s no law of nature or principle of reality that guarantees humanity’s survival, but we just so happen to occupy a world in which human extinction isn’t something that will ever occur. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Analysis of the by-products of the collisions of particles accelerated to extremely high energies gives scientists good evidence of the structure of the subatomic world and the laws of nature governing it. New clues to the nature of elusive dark matter 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Such natural-growth curves reflect laws of nature and will proceed to completion as long as the conditions remain unchanged. Mass Shootings Will Keep Spiraling Upward without Big Changes in Gun Laws 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Will it be measured by the laws of nature and nature’s God; what C.S. Ask Dr. E: Fighting racism through the lens of Christianity, and the perils of trusting one’s ‘gut’ 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z "Macroscopic" laws of nature describe and explain phenomena experienced daily in the natural world. Scientists, philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The test requires courts to determine if an invention involves an unpatentable abstract idea, natural phenomenon or law of nature - and if so, whether it includes an inventive concept. US Supreme Court rejects Avery Dennison appeal on patent eligibility 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Might as well be a law of nature. Following a trail of questions that lead to Granite Falls' Shinto shrine 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Moreover, even what we call “laws of nature” may be no more than local bylaws governing our particular patch of the multiverse. How Far Should We Take Our Cosmic Humility? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Brian admits his family probably disrupted the laws of nature by stepping in. Perspective | In the middle of the pandemic, two orphaned squirrels brought joy 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z People talk about the Second Amendment as if it were an immutable law of nature, like gravity. Opinion | The American love affair with guns 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “The divine right of kings did not extend to overturning the laws of nature and common sense,” the professor said. The Chatbots Can’t Outsmart You. Yet. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z If you could change the laws of nature, what would you change? Let’s Hack the Universe 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z This went on so long that the appeal of central cities came to seem almost a law of nature, effortless and eternal. Opinion | U.S. cities are failing to address the remote-work revolution 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z To discover new "laws of nature" requires dedicated talent, even genius. Astronomer Royal Martin Rees: We're in a race between science education and catastrophe 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z These ancient organisms seem to have escaped the stringent laws of nature. How Marin County Changed Its Reputation on Vaccines 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Support a candidate just because he has an R next to his name, or violate the presumed laws of nature and vote for a Democrat? What is a reasonable Republican voter to do in SW WA? 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z These ancient organisms, generally considered the oldest trees on Earth, seem to have escaped the stringent laws of nature. In California, Where Trees Are King, One Hardy Pine Has Survived for 4,800 Years 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z "The dominance of American banks is no law of nature," he added. Deutsche Bank CEO warns on recession, China and U.S. banks 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The study of active transport carries us into the realms of microbiology, biophysics, and biochemistry and it is a fascinating application of the laws of nature to living structures. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z But, the consistency of the laws of nature gives us enormous power to understand distant objects without traveling to them and learning the local laws. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Determinism the belief that human actions are governed by the laws of nature. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Historian Yuval Noah Harari points out, however, that the longstanding pattern by which technological disruption creates new opportunities is not some inexorable law of nature. Will Elon's robots bring utopia or tyranny? Why humans must control the future of automation 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z These tiny bits of matter have long been interesting to physicists seeking to understand the underlying laws of nature, but they are proving to have much more practical uses as well. Physics Particles Fly as Practical Tools 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z These laws of nature are rules that all natural processes appear to follow. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Lyell argued that the laws of nature are constant over time, so scientists must explain past events in terms of processes they can observe in the present. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z What if we as physical objects are governed by the laws of nature? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Hutton’s idea is called the principle of uniformitarianism and states that natural processes operate the same now as in the past, i.e. the laws of nature are uniform across space and time. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z The test requires courts to determine if an invention involves an unpatentable abstract idea, natural phenomenon or law of nature, and if so, whether it includes an inventive concept. U.S. Supreme Court rejects American Axle case on patent eligibility 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z This universally obeyed law of nature is called the law of conservation of charge. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z It wasn't just people doing experiments and finding out the laws of nature. The real world behind "Jurassic World": How the story of dinosaurs reflects the story of humans 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z My Indigenous ancestors perfected this process countless generations ago to work within the laws of nature. Prescribed burns: Indigenous knowledge 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “It’s like we found a new law of nature,” said Chico Camargo, a co-author and a lecturer in computer science at the University of Exeter in England. Life’s Preference for Symmetry Is Like ‘A New Law of Nature’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “This is a right rooted in the ‘laws of nature and nature’s God,’ and the Ukrainian people desire to exercise these natural rights just as any free people should,” Mr. Green said. U.S. gunmakers ship firearms to Ukraine 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Although finding the correct equation is essential, keep in mind that equations represent physical principles, laws of nature, and relationships among physical quantities. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z It was more so, how did these laws of nature affect human beings and affect society? The real world behind "Jurassic World": How the story of dinosaurs reflects the story of humans 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Deists believed that human reason could discover the laws of nature and morality without religious guidance, and often condemned “priestcraft” as superstitious and fanatical. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But there is no law of nature that says a virus must always evolve to become less virulent. People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Lacking knowledge of the laws of nature, many people during the Middle Ages were led to irrational beliefs. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hobbes wrote that, according to the laws of nature, humans live freely and without authority, leaving weak people vulnerable to the aggression of others. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The time we have left with family and friends is not a law of nature like the weeks we have left to live. Opinion | How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z A Boston firebrand declared in 1774 that “the colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The 2021 book “Secular Surge,” by a trio of prominent political scientists, says “secular” core values include freethinking, logic and reason — rather than received authority — human experience and the laws of nature. American secularism is growing — and growing more complicated 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The anthropic principle suggests that the laws of nature must take the form that we observe because otherwise we would not be here to observe them. Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Like Lewis, you are combating the illusion of American exceptionalism, the idea that freedom, democracy and progress toward equality are almost like laws of nature. Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on "high alert" 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z In Nuland’s view, medicine’s focus on specific pathology amounted to a “legalized evasion of the greater law of nature”. 'My body is unserviceable and well past its sell-by date': the last days of Avril Henry 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z One of the side effects of white privilege naiveté is that white male agents could well be unaware of the laws of nature. How racial diversity can help the FBI solve its "privilege naiveté" problem 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z But they aren’t real in the same sense that neutrons and neurons are real, and we shouldn’t confer upon them the status of “truth” or “laws of nature.” Is the Schrödinger Equation True? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Catholics who live in communion with what the church teaches understand that marriage is written into the law of nature,” Burch said. Divided reactions in US as pope backs same-sex civil unions 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z To unravel the so-called laws of nature he had to unravel the so-called laws of harmony. Why Scriabin’s satanic Ninth Sonata, 'Black Mass,' is a scary wonder of music 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The laws of nature and karma can be suspended … until they aren't. Will Trump's illness break his hold over his followers? Mental health experts say probably not 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z All are believed to be remnants of the cores of stars that exploded as supernovae, offering an ideal laboratory for studying the laws of nature under extreme conditions. How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “The Higgs boson is a unique particle that raises profound questions about the fundamental laws of nature,” the report states. Higgs Boson Gives Next-Generation Particle Its Heft 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from a sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations. America's 'untouchables': the silent power of the caste system 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “No matter how much Congress thinks they can suspend the laws of nature, never-ending economic inflation through accelerating claims on future American earners’ incomes is utterly unsustainable.” Federalist publisher says US lockdowns are ‘what China wants’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The great man shared his lifetime with many people whose understanding, if you can call it that, of the laws of nature was strongly influenced by antiquity's often wrong writers. How Galileo Battled the Science Deniers of His Time 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations. America’s Enduring Caste System 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z There is no law of nature prohibiting massive selling of dollars, which would trigger instability of interest rates, exchange rates, commodities, stocks and bonds. Opinion | The national debt is out of control 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z One condition is that the laws of nature might not be as symmetrical as physicists like Einstein assumed. Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z And the usual laws of nature don’t apply to him. Opinion | Injections of Bleach? Beams of Light? Trump Is Self-Destructing Before Our Eyes 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z “The laws of nature don’t care whether we believe in them or not,” he said. The Lab That Discovered Global Warming Has Good News and Bad News 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z This puzzling question lies at the core of our understanding of the laws of nature and the evolution of the Universe. Matter–antimatter symmetry violated 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z In good times, this advice seems like a scientific law of nature. Trump and His Allies Played Down the Virus. Then the Dow Got Infected. 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z It says that the laws of nature and the initial conditions are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. Scientific Rebel Freeman Dyson Dies 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Tax dodging is not a law of nature, an unchangeable fate that dooms tax justice. Perspective | Wealth taxes often failed in Europe. They wouldn’t here. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The creative process can’t conflict with mathematical principles or the laws of nature. One Man, Two Kinds of Creativity 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z But the economists who developed the idea dispute the notion that tax avoidance is an unbreakable law of nature. ‘Just too much’: Meet the uber-rich who want a wealth tax 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z If we believe most commentators, tax avoidance is a law of nature. Opinion | How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Is the pursuit of the quantum internet likely to foster fundamental insights about the laws of nature — a sort of learning-by-doing approach to science? To Invent a Quantum Internet 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z “It would be wonderful to find in the laws of nature a plan, prepared by a concerned creator in which human being played some special role,” Weinberg wrote. The Delusion of Scientific Omniscience 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z It is a fear connected, I suspect, to the anxiety felt during a plane’s takeoff, landing or turbulence – that is, to the suspicion that this thing we’re riding in defies laws of nature. The New York high life has given me a new fear – of elevators | Emma Brockes 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In the U.S., an exemption states that inventions relating to laws of nature or natural phenomena may not be granted a patent. Moving Away from Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z But Moore’s law is not a law of nature and I see no reason for optimism. Quantum supremacy is coming. It won't change the world 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z He peaceably shares insights on eclipses and the physical Moon, an exposition of astronomy that leaves his audience in awe of this “expounder of the laws of nature”. Moon on the mind: two millennia of lunar literature 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z “The laws of nature are different. The world is a confusing place for Laird. He is always in the tension of wanting to go and wanting to be here for his family.” Laird Hamilton has no time for alpha males 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z It says that decisions about patent eligibility should not rely on “judicially created exceptions … including ‘abstract ideas,’ ‘laws of nature,’ or ‘natural phenomena.’ Controversial U.S. bill would lift Supreme Court ban on patenting human genes 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z To my surprise, Gell-Mann disparaged the hope that complexity research would yield profound new laws of nature, such as a force that counters the tendency of all systems to become more disordered. From My Archives: Quark Inventor Murray Gell-Mann Doubts Science Will Discover "Something Else" 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z “It remains to be seen,” the team wrote in their paper posted online in February, “whether the irreversibility of time is a fundamental law of nature or whether, on the contrary, it might be circumvented.” For a Split Second, a Quantum Computer Made History Go Backward 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Voting against Republicans was basically a “law of nature” in the Iron Range, he’d write later. Amy Klobuchar's father was a journalist, man of the people and fiery alcoholic. Will that help her win Trump voters? 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Lawmakers were “trying to issue new laws of nature,” says Alexander Isavnin, of the RosKomSvoboda movement, which advocates for internet freedom. Russia’s great firewall: is it meant to keep information in – or out? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z This is just a statistical trend, a tendency, not some golf law of nature. Perspective | At Masters, it’s how you start as much as how you finish. And Tiger Woods knows it. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Of course it did, for the Masters is about to begin, and it’s practically a law of nature that all should be good. Augusta National magic revealed again in a solitary palm tree - Golf Digest 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It was done so that we may learn more about the fundamental laws of nature and, in doing so, better understand who we are. Why the black hole is a ray of light in these dark times | Ellie Mae O’Hagan 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z So, the most profound role of black holes may be in teaching us something new and deep about the fundamental laws of nature. The Event Horizon Telescope, the Hawking Effect and the Foundations of Physics 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Working with the law of nature, recent retiree Cindy Clark faithfully watered her fern every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with a monthly boost of liquid fertilizer. A Seattle paralegal kept a rabbit’s foot fern growing in her office windowsill for more than 30 years 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Ignore the irrevocable laws of nature for long enough and we put our own, rather narrow, ecological niche at risk. Globe to gut: inside Big Food 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Anderson railed against a widespread view that the only science that mattered was the science of the small—“fundamental” laws of nature—and argued the merits of understanding the science of the many: emergent behaviors. The Science of Innovation 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Those who employed Marxism most rigorously saw resistance to oppression as hopeless opposition to a law of nature. Opinion | Public health shouldn’t be invasive. Vaccination skeptics make that harder. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z If either scenario is correct, that is a profound clue to more basic laws of nature. The Event Horizon Telescope, the Hawking Effect and the Foundations of Physics 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z “Why should the laws of nature care what I find beautiful?” Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z And that AOC certainly shouldn’t mess with the laws of nature and history that mean rich white men, and a few rich white women, are our leaders and superiors. Ocasio-Cortez's critics babble and bluster … but can't ignore her | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z “Like the French syllables attached to polynomials and the German surnames associated with quantum mechanics, even when describing universal laws of nature, language carries the power of identity and association,” writes Cheng. Daily briefing: The Denisova Cave rewrote human history — where to next? 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z What’s more, this multifariousness applies only to the true laws of nature—it doesn’t work if the laws are misstated. A Different Kind of Theory of Everything 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z That was a law of mathematics, but apparently not a law of nature. Inside the 30-year quest to find a new state of matter 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z I am struck by the order we find in the universe, by the regularity, by the existence of laws of nature. Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Reeves does sell this point as a man who defies all laws of nature to bring his family back in some form. Review: Keanu Reeves is still a pro in the silly sci-fi film ‘Replicas’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The accompanying graphic “Chain of Improbable Coincidences” lacks one component: at the moment of the big bang, all the laws of nature happened to exist from the get-go. Readers Respond to the September 2018 Issue 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z You believe the laws of nature are complete in themselves and contain all the answers.” Einstein’s ‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Or because we believe in a God — whether biblical or not, literal or metaphorical or perhaps, like Jefferson’s or Einstein’s God, one and the same with the laws of nature — who decrees that they are. Opinion | The lessons my father, Charles Krauthammer, taught me about being thankful 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Or do the laws of nature sometimes allow for things to happen at random? Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “The system will be intrinsically correct by reference to the laws of science, the laws of nature,” he said. This is heavy: The kilogram is getting an update 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z "The system will be intrinsically correct by reference to the laws of science, the laws of nature," he said. This is heavy: The kilogram is getting an update 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Your exquisitely sensitive, active, plotting, conspiring brain is a Lovecraftian horror, borne from the deepest laws of nature and asserting its influence on the world. The Scariest Thing in the Universe 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Scientific discoveries substantiate our awe when faced with the richness and universality of the laws of nature. The Fate of Free Will: When Science Crosses Swords with Philosophy 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z That was his gift, to understand the laws of nature and defy them, even if sometimes that’s impossible, in film and in life. An Appreciation: Burt Reynolds ran through my youth as a charmer and a spinner of wiles 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “I think the laws of nature suggest that it’s possible to reconstruct any known mixture,” says Simanek, who is the co-author of Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey. Artificial whiskey is coming, and one company is betting you’ll drink up 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z As surely as the Soviets distorted the theory of natural selection to accommodate communism, we in the west found it hard to admit that capitalist predation was not the sole law of nature. How politicians have corrupted the concept of “survival of the fittest” 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z It's in these extreme settings that the laws of nature are stretched to their limits. In a cosmic first, scientists detect ‘ghost particles’ from a distant galaxy 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “Why should the laws of nature care about what I find beautiful?” How the belief in beauty has triggered a crisis in physics 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z It had been inconceivable, like the repeal of a law of nature—not just because of who Trump was but also because of who Obama was. Witnessing the Obama Presidency, from Start to Finish 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The laws of nature are not some sort of Platonic construct, separate and outside of reality. A Conversation with Thomas Hertog, One of Stephen Hawking's Final Collaborators 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z "We deeply regret that the results violated GQ's rigorous standards of editorial excellence and the laws of nature." GQ's new issue pokes fun at Vanity Fair 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Luckily, cultural attitudes are not laws of nature, and both of us are living proof that good mentors can help students break free from gendered expectations. Countries with Less Gender Equity Have More Women in STEM. Huh? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z It hints that somewhere, somehow, our understanding of the laws of nature may be fundamentally flawed—with potentially profound implications for physics, and perhaps even the fate of all things. Cosmic Conflict: Diverging Data on Universe's Expansion Polarizes Scientists 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z One example is the multiverse: the conjecture that our universe is but one among a multitude of others, each potentially with a different set of laws of nature. How Much Can We Know? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Is the existence of life on Earth a lucky fluke or an inevitable consequence of the laws of nature? How Did Life Begin? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Researchers hope these will help the experiment’s ultimate goal of revealing fundamental insights into the laws of nature. Particle physicists turn to AI to cope with CERN’s collision deluge 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The response expected of us by the media, by our history, by nothing less than the laws of nature is: nothing. Don't ask! Why do new mothers find it so hard to ask for help? | Jamila Rivzi 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z A key character defies the laws of nature to resurrect a beautiful young stranger who died saving hers; in doing so, she sets in motion circumstances that lead to death for others. What to watch with your kids: ‘The Miracle Season,’ ‘A Quiet Place’ and more 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Surely, such inventions and so many others are based on laws of nature that function independently of us. How Much Can We Know? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z But to physicists, it was deeply unsettling: the laws of nature depend on events being predictable, in principle, from their pasts. Stephen Hawking: The Universe Does Not Forget, and Neither Will We 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Delegates were confused about how to repeal comparative advantage, wondering whether it was a statute, law of nature or international agreement. The Illuminati Embrace Protectionism 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z For all their celebration of symmetry in the laws of nature, physicists conjure more from its breaking. Asymmetry symposium unites economists, physicists and artists 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Natural rights root in the laws of nature - physics and biology. How Much Is Anyone ‘Entitled’ To, in the End? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Is progress a law of nature, akin to the laws of physics? Review | Buck up, everyone! We are riding along the Enlightenment’s long path of progress 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In this sense, evolution bestowed on us a moral and purpose-driven life by dint of the laws of nature. Our Actions Don't Matter in a Cosmic Sense--but That Doesn't Mean They Don't Matter 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z No one is defying the laws of nature — these are just a bunch of desperate people, trying to save humanity by supplying it with power. The Cloverfield Paradox should have been a comedy, and almost is 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The basic right-left divide – essentially, between those who believe inequality is a law of nature and are suspicious of collective action, and people who refute the first and believe in the second – will surely remain. What happens when the jobs dry up in the new world? The left must have an answer | John Harris 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The first law of nature is: “every man ought to endeavour peace”. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Pinker wants progress to be a law of nature, what he calls a “reality” that numbers and charts can show. Review | Buck up, everyone! We are riding along the Enlightenment’s long path of progress 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Spikes are regions of unusually strong magnetic field, but a fundamental law of nature means that they must be accompanied by regions of weaker field elsewhere on the globe. Mysterious "Geomagnetic Spike" 3,000 Years Ago Challenges Our Understanding of the Earth's Interior 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Marshall’s opponent, Danica Roem, would be the state’s first elected official who is openly transgender, an identity that the incumbent describes as “against the laws of nature and nature’s God.” Del. Robert Marshall: Conservative warrior fights to preserve ‘laws of nature’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Many are dismayed when scientists treat the rules of the Nobel Prize as inviolable as laws of nature itself. It's Time to Rethink the Nobel Prizes 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The third law of nature is: “men performe their Covenants made.” The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z But isn’t he also above the laws of nature? Can we talk about Tom Brady’s brain? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Policy choices, not some law of nature, keeps poverty alive. End poverty? It’s not as pie-in-the-sky as you may think 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z During a recent radio interview, Marshall called the election part of a moral battle to preserve “the laws of nature.” Del. Robert Marshall: Conservative warrior fights to preserve ‘laws of nature’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Maths is often described as the language in which the laws of nature are written. All shook up over topology 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Hubris, never a particularly good thing, can be especially dangerous in economics, because its scholars don’t just observe the laws of nature; they help make them. How economics became a religion | John Rapley 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Scientists debate whether our emergence was a highly probable outcome of the laws of nature or a once-in-infinity fluke. How Quarks Turned into Cultures 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The other is to realize that the laws of nature are independent of us and that we are “the result of an accident in the history of the universe”. Physics: Revelations of fundamental science : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The appeal of this film lies in its outlandish action, innovative stunt spectacle to the extreme, defying all laws of nature, physics and logic. Vin Diesel is back in action for 'XXX: The Return of Xander Cage,' but Donnie Yen steals the show 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z This view holds it to be all but a law of nature that the radicalism of the candidate is always tempered by the reality of governing. Will Donald Trump destroy America? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z These are averages, rather than laws of nature. Impact of Uncertainty Is Likely to Ease After Election Day 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z To some liberal analysts, this crossover practically violated a law of nature—why did less affluent white Americans keep voting against their own interests? Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “They are dinosaurs. But the No. 1 law of nature is change.” Surfing Under the Northern Lights 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “You would just throw data at this machine, and it would come back with the laws of nature,” says Jean-Roch Vlimant, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Can we open the black box of AI? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z “That what we normally think of as the first law of nature, namely self-preservation, is suddenly dissolved. What creates that breakthrough when we put another’s well-being ahead of our own?” How America became a 1% society 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Deceptively simple, but in direct confrontation with the pessimistic-leaning laws of nature. What it's like to borrow millions of dollars worth of cars 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Repeat the phrase “chain through the metadata” enough times and it sounds like a law of nature rather than a contentious policy. A Spymaster Opens Up 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z This is a basic law of nature, true anywhere in the universe. A brief history of gravity, gravitational waves and LIGO 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z He wasn’t known as a humble man, but even a “dictator in perpetuity” realised that it was easier to change rules written by other humans than it is to change the laws of nature. Let’s make this a real ‘leap’ year, and go fossil fuel-free | Naomi Klein 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z He famously explained that “competition ... is a law of nature” and that nature “grants her rewards to the fittest, therefore, without regard to other considerations of any kind”. How America became a 1% society 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It is also worth noting that the stack fallacy is just that: a fallacy and not a law of nature. Why Big Companies Keep Getting Disrupted 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Philosophes challenged existing authority by holding that religion was but one branch of knowledge, imperfectly understood, and subject to science and the law of nature. We have always been good haters: Our Donald Trump problem goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z It seems almost like a law of nature: the earth circles the sun; gravity pulls objects down; and narcotics are illegal—facts of life, pure and simple. How the Mexican Drug Trade First Began 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The Accidental Universe is an amazing read, balancing the laws of nature and first principles with a philosophical exploration of the world around us. Here's a Profound Contradiction of Human Existence 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z He’s impervious to the political laws of nature, and he surges in the polls at precisely the moment he shouldn’t. And then there were two: Trump and Cruz surge in latest Iowa poll, creating nightmare scenario for GOP 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Einstein’s point was that such a phenomenon could only mean that the particles were somehow communicating with each other instantaneously, at a speed faster than light, violating the laws of nature. Is Science Kind of a Scam? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It just sort of happened, against all laws of nature and Major League Baseball. Move Over, Bleacher Creatures: It’s the 7 Line Army’s Turn 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z It would be so convenient if fundamental laws of nature told us how best to run a society. Money matters 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Wilczek is at his best when describing the contemporary theoretical underpinning of symmetry in the laws of nature. The shapeliness of the world 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z "Regardless of what any man puts on a piece of paper, the law of nature is not going to change," Davis told the crowd. Same-sex couple cheers appeals court order for Kentucky clerk to issue marriage licenses 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It is widely believed to be an inviolable law of nature. Stephen Hawking Offers New Theory on How Information Might Escape Black Holes 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s a situation that, in many ways, defies the laws of nature. Nut empire battles conservationists over water tunnel for California orchards 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Their enslavement, he wrote, was a “violation of the laws of nature and of nation.” The Declaration’s dual traditions: Broad equality, and equality for whites 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z One is the overt politico-theology of figures like Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who invoked “the laws of nature or of nature’s God” in his response to the decision. Church is the next frontier for same-sex marriage acceptance | Steven Paulikas 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Moore, who fought a losing battle to keep a Ten Commandments monument he erected inside Alabama's state judicial building, said the decision went against the laws of nature. Conservative churches confront new reality on gay marriage 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Distorting the laws of nature, he said, is akin to playing the piano without a tuning fork — or baking a cake without the proper measurements of salt, flour and sugar. As cultural ground shifts, Republicans face a choice 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The next century of physics will likely be dominated by quests to combine relativity with the other known laws of nature. 100 Years of Great Physics: Watch Live Monday and Tuesday [Video] 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Photosynthesis relies on processes that are governed by quantum physics – the laws of nature at its most granular. Scientists are closing in on the ultimate secrets of plant photosynthesis 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Yet for all of sports medicine’s advances over the last half-century, some laws of nature remain intractable. Stem cells still uncharted territory in sports 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Sokal argued that gravity “is a social construct” - meaning it is something invented by society rather than an immutable law of nature. Editorials from around New York 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Because the designers are building their universe by establishing its laws of nature, rather than by hand-crafting its details, much about it remains unknown, even to them. The Galaxy-Sized Video Game 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But there’s a law of nature — something that’s conserved — that tells us if Earth’s rotation is slowing down, something else needs to happen to compensate for it. Solar Eclipses Are Slowly Disappearing, And There's Nothing We Can Do To Stop It 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s a law of nature, get used to it. It's All In There, In Putin's Language: You Just Have To Listen Harder 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z But just four months ago, Erodgan was accused of sexism after he said women and men couldn’t be treated equally “because it goes against the laws of nature.” Turkish men wear miniskirts for women's rights 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z “Science is a method for deciding whether what we choose to believe has a basis in the laws of nature or not.” Why science is so hard to believe 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z When they appear to defy the laws of nature, they seem all the more remarkable. Designing Distraction: Executive Toys 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z However, this is not a law of nature. Pollution Around the World: A Matter of Choices 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Prometheus decision, which invalidated a patent on a method of adjusting drug dosage using measures of blood metabolites because it relied on a “law of nature.” U.S. patent office floats new biotech-friendly guidelines 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z So if you’re defining God in a way that identifies the laws of nature with his or her qualities, that’s perfectly consistent. Avi Loeb Ponders the Early Universe, Nature and Life 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Like other laws of nature, the law of a construction project is that “stuff happens.” 8 Ways To Stick To Your Home Budget 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Is it a new immutable law of nature that we in the UK and rich west are doomed to suffer creeping inexorable impoverishment? UK's hot and cold labour market 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z By respecting, rather than ignoring, the laws of nature we can improve the human condition. Peter Thiel: "We Don't Live In A Normal World; We Live Under A Power Law." 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z We haven’t found some miracle exemption from the laws of nature. Charlie Munger and the 2014 Daily Journal Annual Meeting - Part Four 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Such a mother is seen as someone who is not only guilty of a crime but has violated a law of nature and rebelled against instinct. What makes mothers kill their own children? Racism was supposedly justified and war extolled as an extension of the law of nature. We Are Playing God with a Declassified Future [Excerpt] 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z “There’s no primitive law of nature that every 30 years they will revise the tax code,” Mr. Gale said. Businesses Find Ways to Avoid Corporate Taxes, but a Fix Seems Unlikely 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Thiel simply ponders the laws of nature, aware we can no more repeal the Pareto Principle than we can repeal the law of gravity. Peter Thiel: "We Don't Live In A Normal World; We Live Under A Power Law." 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Children want to be with their parents – it is a law of culture and it is a law of nature. Bringing Minors and Families Together Will Solve the U.S. Border Crisis 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Part scientific and historical exploration, part travelogue, Berman's story re-minds us of this inescapable law of nature: “Nothing in the universe is stationary,” he writes. Review: Zoom 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Basically, our roads are beyond maxed out, but like Wile E. when he’s just run off a cliff, we keep moving until suddenly the laws of nature take hold and down we go. The way out of gridlock? Maybe we need a Mandela to lead 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z “This is the beginning of a movement where we the people begin to protect our universal human rights with the laws of nature rather than the laws of nations.” A Year After the Snowden Leaks, the Online Community Is Still Fuming 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Yet by working with the laws of nature we build trans-world passenger jets that fly us around the globe … notwithstanding the law of gravity. Peter Thiel: "We Don't Live In A Normal World; We Live Under A Power Law." 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z There is a widespread belief in the field that the laws of nature must somehow be based on information. Theoretical physics: Complexity on the horizon 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Safety is good, but entropy is a law of nature. General Motors Decides to Err on the Side of Too Many Recalls 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Their deeds, no matter how violent, now escaped moral condemnation, because their actions supposedly reflected “the laws of nature,” and the natural world, the animal kingdom, knows no morality. Charles Darwin’s tragic error: Hitler, evolution, racism and the Holocaust 2014-04-19T18:00:00Z Those are for “laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas.” Supreme Court weighs software patents 2014-04-01T01:13:18Z The court has said that laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas do not qualify. Supreme Court Seems Wary of a Software Patent Case 2014-03-31T20:10:04Z The nine judges on the Supreme Court unanimously decided that the patents merely laid claim to a law of nature — the body’s breakdown of the drugs — and were therefore invalid. Software patents await legal fate 2014-03-26T18:20:19.979Z Many valid patents involve abstract ideas or even laws of nature applied through software and computers, such as aircraft flight-control systems or parallel-parking technology that may appear in Google ’s automatic cars. Supreme Court To Decide Fate Of Software Patents -- Or Maybe Not 2014-03-20T20:03:00Z Curiosity, discovery, love, and other things that give life meaning without violating laws of nature. The Return of Physics Week in Review! February 22, 2014 2014-02-22T10:10:33Z Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” A New Physics Theory of Life 2014-01-28T23:00:00Z At some point you run into limits imposed by the laws of nature. Can a Belgian Company Save Semiconductors? 2013-11-29T17:20:00Z Said two medical-diagnostics patents were based on laws of nature, and invalid. Software patents await legal fate 2014-03-26T18:20:19.979Z Michel's vision is for a new "bionic" computing architecture, inspired by one of the laws of nature - allometric scaling - where an animal's metabolic power increases with its body size. 'Electronic blood' computer tested 2013-10-18T17:05:02Z “So in the next decade we may see the search for the laws of nature slow to a halt, not to be resumed again in our lifetimes.” The Supercollider That Never Was 2013-10-15T11:15:00.510Z It is almost a law of nature that if something can’t possibly continue, then it will stop. Washington Nationals hitters have been so terrible, they can’t possibly keep it up 2013-06-21T19:59:00Z In passing down judgement in Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics, Justice Clarence Thomas stated that "laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas" should not be patentable. Ban on human gene patents is baffling but it won't impede biotech research 2013-06-18T12:51:00Z He added that “groundbreaking, innovative, or even brilliant discovery does not by itself” overcome the fact that “laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas” are beyond the domain of patent protection. Supreme Court rejects idea of patenting natural human genes 2013-06-14T04:20:01Z Or to put it another way, hard times for top bankers appears to be against the laws of nature. The ghost of banks to come 2013-06-10T07:52:19Z In peril is the notion of “naturalness,” Albert Einstein’s dream that the laws of nature are sublimely beautiful, inevitable and self-contained. New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis 2013-06-01T12:15:03.273Z But in the end, when the war ends and the dust settles, the moderate majority will prevail, thats just statistical probability, the law of nature. Arming Syria's Rebellion: How Libyan Weapons Reach Anti-Assad Fighters 2013-05-30T00:05:25Z Despite the incredible efficiencies cloud computing introduces, the laws of nature — and organizational inertia — still prevail. Cloud Still No Match For Organizational Inertia, Survey Finds 2013-05-15T16:42:30Z Even if there are such things as laws of nature, there's no reason to think they must be accessible to the human mind. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z You replaced God with the laws of nature. Physicists Debate the Many Varieties of Nothingness 2013-03-22T22:45:05.650Z Pre-Keynesian economic policies practically accepted booms and slumps as almost a law of nature. Letters: Budget shows Tories' true colours 2013-03-20T21:00:01Z One fundamental law of nature is that entropy—the amount of disorder in a system—increases with time. Time in 298 Words 2013-03-10T16:45:00.540Z While Phillips himself did not presume to suggest that the relationship he had discovered was an iron law of nature, other economists, including Paul Samuelson, did. A brief history of macro: How we got here 2013-01-21T23:19:13Z As Edward Dolnick, author of “The Clockwork Universe,” an entertaining history of the early society, noted, the founders viewed the laws of nature and God as inseparable. Royal Society Holds Firm Amid Political Challenges to Science 2012-09-03T19:06:06Z "They are the products of man, albeit following, as all materials do, laws of nature." Gene patents upheld in US court 2012-08-17T12:29:12Z They are the products of man, albeit following, as all materials do, laws of nature.” Court Reaffirms Right of Myriad Genetics to Patent Genes 2012-08-17T01:34:45Z Fortunately, as Forest Troop has demonstrated, there is no law of nature forcing things to stay that way. The Joker's Wild: On the Ecology of Gun Violence in America 2012-07-26T16:45:05.863Z There are certain laws of nature everyone accepts. Better Safe Than Sorry: Why We Believe In Tempting Fate [Excerpt] 2012-05-04T16:15:03.373Z It may be that even an eternal multiverse in which all universes and laws of nature arise dynamically will still leave open some ‘why’ questions, and therefore never fully satisfy theologians and some philosophers. The Consolation of Philosophy 2012-04-27T14:45:01.080Z For example, our universe may be just one of many bubble universes with varying laws of nature. Much Ado about Nothing 2012-04-27T11:15:00.243Z And as we have said, our hero had, or believed he had, the "eternal laws of nature" on his side. A Captain of Industry Being the Story of a Civilized Man 2012-04-25T02:01:06.607Z He did know that between him and Sarella there was no real relationship—in the law of nature there was nothing to bar their marriage, and he had acted in perfect good faith. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z He can wield it only so long as he strictly conforms to the rules of his art, or to what may be called the laws of nature as conceived by him.... The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z It is not therefore to be viewed as a piece of superficial sentimentality, but rather as a profound law of nature. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z “But the law of nature bids us repel violence by violence.” Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z He had no more money, but he was not frightened; his trust was in the eternal laws of nature,—and besides, he had one or two more cards to play. A Captain of Industry Being the Story of a Civilized Man 2012-04-25T02:01:06.607Z To say that they are maintained by the force of ancient custom is not enough: they are fixed as by a law of nature. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z But it is the law of nature, and it is not so bad, after all. Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends 2012-04-14T02:00:22.840Z Many women, it is true, are succeeding to-day in business callings, but they are doing so as a rule in violation of certain laws of nature. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z But now, that the laws of nature are better understood, and medical science more fully developed, demonology, as well as witchcraft and sorcery, are given up altogether. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z It is not a law of nature that the world must hold its reserves in U.S. Does the World Believe America Will Pay Its Debts? 2012-04-05T10:45:34Z Hildebrandt began by painting pictures illustrative of Goethe and Shakespeare; but in this form he followed the traditions of the stage rather than the laws of nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z One can’t patent ideas, laws of nature, or products of nature. Are DNA Patents Doomed? 2012-04-03T15:15:00.240Z Self-preservation, the first law of nature, asserts itself the more vehemently when the way of escape is uncertain. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Ignorant of the laws of nature, the power of imagination has produced, owing to the organization of the human mind, a world of fiction, consisting of a God, angels, and a habitation in the skies. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Millions of prayers have been vainly breathed to what we now know were inexorable laws of nature. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z But then again, miracles are defined as “an event that is contrary to the established laws of nature and attributed to a supernatural cause.” Secrets of ?miraculous? charter management organizations 2012-03-27T08:00:00Z No clean and chaste mind can be shocked by the most obvious laws of nature. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z By law of nature I mean observed order of event. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a blood test developed by Prometheus Laboratories was not eligible for a patent because it merely reflected a law of nature. Supreme Court Orders New Look at Gene Patents 2012-03-26T20:24:11Z Thus, for example, when theologians pronounced loans at interest contrary to the law of nature and plainly extortionate, this error obviously arose from a false notion of the uses of money. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z It is an inexorable law of nature that power is concentrated in proportion as the amount of its motion is diminished, or distended in precise proportion as such motion is increased. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z His waiting for nine months was purely an act of obedience to the laws of nature, for His Soul and Body were perfect from the moment of His conception. Ortus Christi Meditations for Advent 2012-03-23T02:00:31.917Z It is inconsistent with that observed uniformity of happening usually described as law of nature. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z In the decision, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote that inventors must do more than “recite a law of nature and then add the instruction ‘apply the law.’ ” Supreme Court Orders New Look at Gene Patents 2012-03-26T20:24:11Z The essential characteristic of the Stoical method was the assertion of the existence of a certain law of nature to which it was the end of philosophy to conform. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z In general, Justice Breyer wrote, an inventor must do more than “recite a law of nature and then add the instruction ‘apply the law.’ ” Justices Reject Patents for Medical Tests Relying on Drug Dosages 2012-03-20T22:57:17Z Truth is not to be found in any system of logical notions, in schemes and syntheses of the laws of nature or of thought. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Axiom 5.—The sphere of action lies in the adaptation of 'inner' to 'outer' sequences, of faculties to the laws of nature. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z In fact, in any department of knowledge, when it is discovered that a law of nature has been violated, it becomes necessary, if further progress is desired, to cease the violation. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z In conclusion, it appears to me that monstruosities are purely accidental, subject to no laws of nature, but deviations from them. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "Great wealth is but poverty when matched with the law of nature." The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z An investigation shows that the Negroes never do any more than to defend themselves in keeping with the first law of nature. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z Happiness is the reward offered, not for virtue alone, but for conformity to the law of nature, "Be strong." A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Many years before Mr. Spencer's day, it had been suggested, vaguely, that advancement seemed to be the great law of nature. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z "There's a law of nature," said Flora, "in some people, which makes them dislike to kill their relations." Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z Either we intend to obey the universal law of nature or we do not; and between the intention of obedience and the intention of disobedience there is no middle ground. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z When we consider the faculty which many good people have of believing things that are not so, and ignoring the plainest facts and laws of nature, we are sometimes alarmed over the future of society. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z He is free, since he acts out of his own character, the law of nature appearing as the law of his own mind; freedom lies in the absence of discord and strife in the mind. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z In the preceding chapter the law of evolution was shown to be the cementing law of nature, which explains the destiny of man. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z There is a higher law than the law of nature. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z It's a law of nature that a weak vessel should give way before a strong one. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Thirdly, the native instinct of self-preservation is as much the first law of nature to the negro as it is to the rest of mankind. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z There is no change that is not a particular change, that is not according to constant laws of nature, and, as such, essential to nature. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z So also in science, to the man who obeys the law of nature, come greater power and intelligence, to him who winds the wire right, the electric current comes, with all its latent powers. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z The Jews will be judged by both the law of nature, which they have, in common with the heathen and the Mosaic law. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z You would not have men throw off the fear of violating the laws of nature; for that would lead to incalculable misery. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Protestants teach a double doctrine: That miracles used to be performed, that the laws of nature used to be violated, but that no miracle is performed now. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z If we suppose, at any point of development, an action not in accord with that which the laws of nature necessitate decided upon by the will, such an action cannot be carried out. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z It is content to accept the laws of nature as they are found. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z They insisted that all things now happened in accordance with the laws of nature, with the exception of a few special interferences in favor of the Protestant Church in answer to prayer. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z You might as well say that the laws of nature are whatever we imagine them to be. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z He will regard those who violate the laws of nature and the laws of States as victims of conditions, of circumstances, and he will do what he can for the wellbeing of his fellow-men. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The law of nature has but one precept, "Be strong." A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The theology which rests upon the few basic laws of nature is unshakable; and the great theology of the future will be such a one. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z All women were like this, he reflected; it was a law of nature. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z We know nothing of what we call the laws of nature except as we gather the idea of law from the uniformity of phenomena springing from like conditions. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z He did not deny that there were laws of nature, laws antecedent to government, laws even in a sense eternal and immutable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Man serves others by physical work,—procuring food; by intellectual work,—studying the laws of nature in order to master it; and by social work,—instituting forms of life, and establishing mutual relationships between people. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Men with such powers transcended all known laws of nature, and became objects of fear, often of worship to the masses of mankind. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z The life of the nation adapts itself also to priestly rules, which operate without alteration, like the laws of nature. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Add to all this the sensuality of the most refined and of the grossest luxury the world had ever seen, and a moral confusion and corruption which violated every law of nature. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z In what sense is a law of nature a “proposition”? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The British Power stood in India then cleaving a law of nature? The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Instead of priding himself, to his disciples, upon his superiority to the laws of nature, he taught distinctly that "the law also maketh you free." Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z This law of nature becomes most apparent when one compares the preponderating power of Rome against Carthage, with its weakness against the Cimbri and Mithradates. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z But this is above the law of nature. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z And in what sense is a law of nature an “immutably true” proposition? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z And he displays no less ignorance of the laws of mind than the laws of nature; thus proving him to have been neither a natural, moral, nor mental philosopher. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z The view that life is a special organization by which the great natural forces are focussed and concentrated, so as to accomplish the greatest works, necessarily implies a belief in the modern laws of nature. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z In your researches after that which you should, at once, have known to be impossible, by the laws of nature, you have opened a fountain of misery which shall flow for ages. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z Even more intriguing is that different physics might prevail in these different universes, so that "some of what we call 'laws of nature' may ... be local bylaws." Science's "most beautiful theories" 2012-01-15T05:14:46Z Cumberland admits this method to be valid, but he prefers the other, that from causes to effects, as showing more convincingly that the laws of nature carry with them a divine obligation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z By the performance of various acts, transcending human power and the laws of nature, called Miracles. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z As the scientific method of gathering facts and reasoning from them became established, it was observed that in all probability the great laws of nature were themselves controlled by some greater law. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Any kind of system you can think of, if it doesn't violate the laws of nature, it probably exists somewhere out there. Kepler Spies Smallest Alien Worlds Yet 2012-01-11T22:16:31Z Equity, ek′wi-ti, n. right as founded on the laws of nature: moral justice, of which laws are the imperfect expression: the spirit of justice which enables us to interpret laws rightly: fairness.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z In the prosecution of this method he expressly declines to have recourse to what he calls “the short and easy expedient of the Platonists,” the assumption of innate ideas of the laws of nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z No more shall you with your treachery delight and entertain innocent little children, unless some fathers, defiant of the new laws of nature and the edicts of scientific mothers, procure you on the sly! The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z The great laws of nature are immutable, and even God can not transcend them. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z And the conception of �laws of nature� was also one quite foreign to his138 habits of thought. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z By not confronting the competition, “we were running the risk that our people assume it’s a law of nature that we grow slower than BMW and Audi.” Audi Adding Models for U.S. in Bid to Grab Lead From BMW: Cars 2012-01-05T23:28:03Z Reward and punishment, supplemented by future retribution, are, in his view, the sanctions of the laws of nature, the sources of our obligation to obey them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The yacht came to anchor in the port of Monaco, and Michael Fedor, on arriving in Paris, almost laughed, as though witnessing some preposterous change in the laws of nature. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z It is to be observed, that the great laws of nature are inferred only from a number of lesser laws that have been gathered by man. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z The winds themselves, under such circumstances, display even in their shifts a certain amount of regularity, which is usually dependent upon the universal laws of nature. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z If we start from the knowledge of the particular, and not from that of the Idea, there is something astonishing, and sometimes even terrible, in the absolute uniformity of the laws of nature. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z But by right reason he means merely the power of rising to general laws of nature from particular facts of experience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Their lives would again be the same as before, with the regularity of the laws of nature, which seem to swerve at times, but finally return to their orderly predestined course. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The scientist who has acquired faith in a law of nature will no longer transgress that law. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z For Mlodinow, the infinite universe is governed by strict laws of nature that we are discovering. Smart, Loving Universe or Mechanistic Physical Laws?: Interview 2011-12-20T15:46:01Z But a law of nature is the relation of the Idea to the form of its manifestation. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The present writer believes the true explanation to be found in that great economic law of nature, “division of labour.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z For instance, scholars have argued about whether individuals actually believe that their choices are independent of the past and the laws of nature. Is Free Will an Illusion? 2011-12-08T13:15:00.213Z To conform to the laws of nature is scientific repentance. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Philosophically speaking, there is no power in the laws of nature. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z Therefore a law of nature may be defined as a fact expressed generally—un fait généralisé—and thus a complete enumeration of all the laws of nature would only be a complete register of facts. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z "Prometheus' claims are drawn not to a law of nature, but to a particular application of naturally occurring correlations," the appeals court said in its second opinion dated December 17, 2010. Supreme Court to hear personal medicine dispute 2011-12-07T16:20:04Z “There ought to be a law of nature forbidding this,” he once wrote to a friend. Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet 2011-12-05T15:54:01Z The law of nature is unalterable; God Himself cannot alter it any more than He can alter a mathematical axiom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z His commands are for the time being immutable as the laws of nature, for any serious disobedience would cause the whole structure to fall to pieces. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z This unity of its being in all its phenomena, this unchangeable constancy of the appearance of these, whenever, under the guidance of causality, the necessary conditions are present, is called a law of nature. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Every consideration to which your soul is now sensitive shall become, as it were, the laws of nature then. Beyond 2011-11-27T03:00:13.650Z So it comes about that in our colleges we are still teaching ancient and immutable "laws of nature," which in the actual practice of men at work are as extinct and forgotten as the dodo. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The study of the laws of nature, which Secularism selects, is quite different from speculation as to the authorship of nature. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z Everybody knows that if there is a law of nature that will not lend itself to system, it is that which governs these affairs. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z Yet a law of nature remains merely the observed rule according to which nature invariably proceeds whenever certain definite circumstances occur. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z All founders of religions have established their claims to divine origin by controlling evil spirits, and suspending the laws of nature. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z They insisted that all things now happened in accordance with the laws of nature, with the exception of a few special interferences in favor of the protestant church in answer to prayer. Mistakes of Moses 2011-11-24T03:00:39.887Z Neither Buddhists nor Christians seem ever to have studied the laws of nature, or the works of the Supreme, with any largeness of mind or understanding. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z The law of nature impels every one to escape from confinement; he should not therefore be subjected to punishment. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z But this law of nature, these conditions, and this appearance in a particular place at a particular time, are all that it knows or ever can know. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The laws of nature decree that the young will inherit the Earth and Giggs' place in the United team. Column: Beckham, Federer prove gravediggers wrong 2011-11-22T21:36:15Z I surely do not want to be free from the laws of nature. Free Will and the Brain 2011-11-15T13:15:00.250Z If, on the other hand, they assume the laws of nature to be a safe guide, they must allow proceedings which are opposed to the feelings of the majority of civilized mortals. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z But a few men who, born in the second half of the eighteenth century, lived well up into the nineteenth, were able to escape this apparently unavoidable law of nature. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Every force and law of nature, every example of such forces and laws, must first be immediately known by the understanding, must be apprehended through perception before it can pass into abstract consciousness for reason. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The laws of nature are not affected by our prejudices. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z Her sceptre made a way for her, and no law of nature resisted her power. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z On the contrary, what is done, even though it amounts to murder, is regarded as a necessity; and we admire the laws of nature which bring about such results. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Truly enough the law of nature is once mentioned in a footnote to the effect that if a prisoner tries to escape from prison he shall not be considered as a capital offender. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z The Deity has given power to man to ameliorate his condition, as may be truly seen by strict attention to the laws of nature. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Miss Fane rolled off the sofa, and with the hydraulic sniff that can temporarily suspend the laws of nature, proceeded to pour out tea. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z There are laws of nature which my sceptre cannot alter. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Although Phillips’ model does not account for such cultural complexities, it looks as if the simple laws of nature explain the colonial behavior of humans just as well as that of weeds and pine trees. Why Pioneers Breed Like Rabbits 2011-11-03T18:15:05.640Z The "law of nature"—what was meant by the word? Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Medicine, being based on the laws of nature, is in itself an exact science; and every process of the act should be directed by those laws. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Cicero asserts that there is no private property whatever according to the law of nature; that according to that law all things are common property. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z We are asked to believe in the suspension of no law of nature. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z At the Camera there is just the same difficulty, which will hardly be overcome till the laws of nature are reformed, and light condescends to travel in convenient curves. Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts 2011-10-27T02:00:27.377Z It was then that he copied and evidently accepted the statement of Bolingbroke that "it is not true that Christ revealed an entire body of ethics, proved to be the law of nature." Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z All diseases are under the control of the immutable laws of nature. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z But this law of nature was really repealed by the jus gentium, under which both horse and prisoner alike became private property. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z My idea in the Sphinx was the hopelessness of man before the cold immutable laws of nature. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z It's a law of nature; only I hadn't quite realized how it was with you. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z All human laws must be founded on that fundamental and immutable law of nature, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z We contemplate the animal system as a complicated piece of mechanism, subject to the uncompromising and immutable laws of nature, as they are written upon the face of animate nature by the finger of Omnipotence. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z By the law of nature there could be private property in neither. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z These laws of nature are known; the Earth’s message to us is clear; our failure is blameworthy; its consequences are profound; and the costs will be very high. A Call to Arms on Climate Change 2011-10-20T16:22:13Z And the reason is, because both the law of nature and the word of God command her obedience to her husband in all things. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z But admitting miracles, the syllogism should be thus:— The laws of nature were in their eternal establishment perfect;—the laws of nature have been altered; therefore, the alteration of the laws of nature is imperfect. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z You profess yourself to be a deist, and to believe that there is a God, who created the universe, and established the laws of nature, by which it is sustained in existence. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Assuredly, nothing else could induce us to violate the first law of nature, which is self-preservation. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Their doctrine destroys the law of nature, that rule of morals which God has inscribed on the heart of man. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z We are subject to two laws, the one the law of nature, the other that of morality: the two clash and collide, and a conflict ensues. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Or thus: the laws of nature have been altered;—the alteration has been for the better; therefore, the eternal establishment thereof was imperfect. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z A plea to mothers to tell their daughters frankly all the laws of nature before they arrive at years of possible indiscretion through innocence. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z "It is the regularity of the laws of nature which leads us to put confidence in them and enables us to use them." Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z We are putting together pieces of what are the basic laws of nature. Speeding universe work wins Nobel 2011-10-04T22:34:12Z Call not that a law of nature, which is the lawlessness of nature! Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z How then came the injunctions of Moses, or any others, to be binding in such cases, in which they coincide with the law of nature? Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z But man has moments of internal upheaval, so deep and so intense that the effect of things with which he comes in contact is no longer manifested according to the general laws of nature. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z Two days after he met me on the street, and whispered in my ear: 'The law of nature is that the most beautiful fruits shall be eaten by the worms.' The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The atoms were arranged in a way that flouted the laws of nature, the Nobel committee wrote in a document describing Shechtman’s achievements. Shechtman Wins Nobel in Chemistry for Quasicrystals Discovery 2011-10-05T14:40:06Z The atoms were arranged in a way that flouted the laws of nature. Shechtman Wins Chemistry Nobel for Quasicrystals Discovery 2011-10-05T11:04:03Z But the truth of the matter is, that mankind are restricted by the law of nature to acquire knowledge or science progressively, as before argued. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z To prove this there is the example of the great Master's work and the eternal laws of nature, on the study of which all serious art must be for ever based. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z He destroyed by his criticisms many things which his contemporaries called miraculous, rejected the prodigious pretensions credited by superstition, and was pleased to demonstrate the immutability of the laws of nature. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The great law of nature is that you cannot get something for nothing. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z We are putting together pieces of what is the basic laws of nature. Faster expanding universe work wins physics Nobel 2011-10-04T17:30:54Z But to return to our speculations on the law of nature. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z David Hume, in the most famous of his essays, says that a miracle is “a violation of the laws of nature”, which laws a “firm and unalterable experience has established”. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z This law is the greatest law of nature. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Upbraiding folks for obeying the laws of nature is the greatest loss of wind possible. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment Alan Kostelecky is a theoretical physicist who studies the fundamental laws of nature. Live Chat: Have Neutrinos Broken the Speed Limit of Light? 2011-09-28T15:24:18Z To form the foregoing argument into syllogisms, it would be thus:— God is perfect—the laws of nature were established by God; therefore, the laws of nature are perfect. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z We cannot quite justify ourselves for any selfishness by quoting some great law of nature. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z I might answer you, 'Do not ask, be sensible only of the strong, exulting love that arose within us as a marvellous, convincing, dominant fact, as a law of nature.' Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z She was only obeying her laws of nature, as you have obeyed yours and I have mine, and—and as our offspring is now obeying hers. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z These devices engage the curiosity of the public, usually because they seem to mysteriously contravene some law of nature. Mechanical Advertising Novelties from 1911 [Slide Show] 2011-09-14T11:45:09.087Z And, despite what sentimentalists may say, self-preservation is the first law of nature. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z They studied the hidden laws of nature and the mysteries of earth and heaven. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z These two conceptions have encountered strong opposition on the allegation of inconsistency with the unchangeableness of the laws of nature. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z We have no ground whatever for assuming any efficient cause acting in any other way than in accordance with the laws of nature. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z Not for disobedience to the parent, as is generally said, but for disregarding the law of nature which says that fire burns. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The Creator governs the world by the laws of nature.' Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z When Leverrier was working at his great discovery he did not strike out a new path in science; he was supported by a great law of nature, the base of all astronomical knowledge. Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes 2011-08-29T02:01:12.927Z If the laws of nature are fixed, how can the government of the world allow for fulfilment of human desire as expressed in supplication? The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z There is no instance producible, or even logically conceivable, of any power whose effects are opposed to the ultimate ruling of the laws of nature. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z Their motto is: “No amount of evidence can establish a miracle;” and their definition of a miracle is something done, or alleged to have been done, contrary to the laws of nature. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z So little a matter, after all, is sufficient to upset the pride of scepticism and vindicate the old simple laws of nature within us. 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