29th July 2010



(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.

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Haldane’s Observation

J. B. S. Haldane

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

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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.

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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.

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Murphy’s Fifth Law

Edward A. Murphy

Left to themselves things, tend to go from bad to worse.

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Ockham’s Razor

William of Ockham

Do not assume more causes for any phenomenon than are absolutely necessary to explain it.

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Spencer’s Law

Herbert Spencer

Every cause produces more than one effect.

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Zeno’s Law

Zeno of Elea

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

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Wells’s Second Law

H. G. Wells

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.

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