Max Weber Quotes

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

Scientific issues are litigated far more often than constitutional ones.

As China works towards the rule of law, it is critical that it continues to develop and strengthen its legal system. However, it should be recognized that this system is only as strong as the professionals who work to uphold it.

All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

An exact science is one that admits loss.

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.