Whitehead’s Observation
Alfred North Whitehead
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Zeno’s Law
Zeno of Elea
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Buchwald’s Law
Art Buchwald
As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.
Murphy’s First Law of Biology
Edward A. Murphy
Under any given set of environmental conditions, an experimental animal will behave as it damn well pleases.
Murphy’s Law of Botany
Edward A. Murphy
When visiting a botanical garden, the one plant that you have never seen before and admire the most is the only one that lacks an identifying label.
Wells’s Second Law
H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
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