Immanuel Kant Quotes

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion; analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Nature itself cannot err

Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

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

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.