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“The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.”

Thinking World Should Law Purpose Belief Natural Events Information Structure Forbidden Natural Law Scientific Method Factual Compulsory Inventory Enquiry

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.”

Law Humanity Sound Born Atheism Conditions Sick Bounds Positive Atheism Vanity Forbidden

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent.”

Believe Country Whole Law Nations Cities Practice Wife Consequence Europe Connections Towns Village Fearful Forbidden Adultery Polygamy Unlawful City And Country

Author:Orson Pratt

“There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculate or encourage polygamy... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”

Law Church Teaching Land Advice Saint Latter Associates Forbidden Refrain Polygamy Latter Days Latter Day Saints Contracting

Book:In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

Source: In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

“In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.”

Ifs Doe States Law Evil Speak Impossible Communication Please Bounds Be Good Forbidden Temperament Laws Of Nature Nonviolent Communication

Author:Baruch Spinoza