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(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.
Galbraith’s First Law
John Kenneth Galbraith
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
Haldane’s Observation
J. B. S. Haldane
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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.
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.
Malthus’s Law
Thomas Robert Malthus
Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Murphy’s Fifth Law
Edward A. Murphy
Left to themselves things, tend to go from bad to worse.
Ockham’s Razor
William of Ockham
Do not assume more causes for any phenomenon than are absolutely necessary to explain it.
Rosten’s Other Laws
Leo Rosten
1. Thinking is harder work than hard work.
2. The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
3. Most people confuse complexity with profundity; an opaque prose with deep meaning. But the greatest ideas have been expressed clearly.
4. Most men never mature; they simply grow taller (quoted in Saturday ReviewApril 4th 1970).
Spencer’s Law
Herbert Spencer
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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