But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

Do not lose hope in what the universe has placed you here to do.