(Charles) Darwin’s Law
Charles Darwin
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those that are injurious, I have called Natural Selection or the Survival of the Fittest.
Galbraith’s First Law
John Kenneth Galbraith
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
Haldane’s Observation
J. B. S. Haldane
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
Hopper’s Law
Grace Murray Hopper
If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you’ve just proven a natural law.
Leopold’s First Law
Aldo Leopold
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Malthus’s Law
Thomas Robert Malthus
Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Murphy’s Fifth Law
Edward A. Murphy
Left to themselves things, tend to go from bad to worse.
Ockham’s Razor
William of Ockham
Do not assume more causes for any phenomenon than are absolutely necessary to explain it.
Rosten’s Other Laws
Leo Rosten
1. Thinking is harder work than hard work.
2. The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
3. Most people confuse complexity with profundity; an opaque prose with deep meaning. But the greatest ideas have been expressed clearly.
4. Most men never mature; they simply grow taller (quoted in Saturday Review April 4th 1970).
Spencer’s Law
Herbert Spencer
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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