When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Hilary MantelTag: words magic government laws spells
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.
François MagendieTag: life truth error progress biology determinism freedom nature materialism laws idea minds phenomena audacious physiology lack-of-free-will organs
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
Ernst Boris ChainTag: science biology morality ethics nature laws study nobel-laureate
Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.
James Hervey JohnsonTag: science man biology humanity nature universe struggle evolution naturalism materialism laws-of-nature adaptation laws natural-laws
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
Rudolf VirchowTag: superstition laws pathology father-of-pathology quacks
Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.
(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)
Tag: goodness guilt actions privacy laws thoughts
...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.
Sylvain TessonNot only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.
Bernardino RamazziniTag: science compassion power biology safety security foresight medicine laws zeal relief care scientist benefit antiquity father-of-occupational-medicine good-conditions
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