Galileo Galilei Quotes

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

If I have learned nothing else …, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.

I have established Laws in the universe that make it possible for you to have-to create-exactly what you choose. These Laws cannot be violated, nor can they be ignored. You are following these Laws right now, even as you read this. You cannot not follow the Law, for these are the ways things work. You cannot step aside from this; you cannot operate outside of it.

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

And nature must obey necessity.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.