Montesquieu Quotes

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

The law of nature is so unalterable that it cannot be changed by God himself.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

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

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.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

Things always work according to their nature.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

All things obey fixed laws.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.