Augustin-Louis Cauchy Quotes
Very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Dan Castellaneta
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
Albert Einstein
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It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
Alfred Kinsey
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
Aristotle
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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
Aristotle
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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.
Aristotle
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
Thomas Hobbes
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
Randy Alcorn
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
