(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.
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.
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.
Spencer’s Law
Herbert Spencer
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Zeno’s Law
Zeno of Elea
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Wells’s Second Law
H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
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