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“According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.”

Wells Running Moving Law Force Known Fields Determined Well Known Magnitude Magnetic Moving In Electrons Magnetic Fields Magnetic Force

Author:Pieter Zeeman

“The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.”

Law Known Subjects Planets Particles

Book:Knowledge Among Men: Eleven Essays on Science, Culture, and Society Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of James Smithson

Source: Knowledge Among Men: Eleven Essays on Science, Culture, and Society Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of James Smithson

“My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.”

Law Known Streets Wall Husband Degrees Investment University Firm Grandmother My Grandmother Banking Investment Banking Syracuse

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.”

Law Known Sweet

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.”

Law Known Principles Negative Lawyer

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.”

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Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

“I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Law Left Force Nations Church Chance Known Principles Blood Ignorance Gods Will Great Men Wickedness Exaltation

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.”

Ifs Might Would Be Law Universe Causes Known Effects Ignorance Source Consequence Standing Miracle Defined Laws Of Nature

Author:Charles Babbage

“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.”

Knows May Law Certain Order Known Conditions Higher Ordinary Miracle Contrary Superiors Inferiors Laws Of Nature

Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.”

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Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them and things more familiar or better known. In many cases, we have no better way of judging. And, where the things compared have really a great similitude in their nature, when there is reason to think that they are subject to the same laws, there may be a considerable degree of probability in conclusions drawn from analogy.”

Thinking Men Way May Reason Law Natural Known Cases Subjects Judging Degrees Familiar Conclusion Probability Better Ways Analogies

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.”

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Author:Stanley Fish

“Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.”

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Author:Ilana Mercer

“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.”

“The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord.... Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual, as well as by the Lord's Temporal. The Church, indeed, was the bulwark of this base feudal claim.”

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Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage

“Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.”

Law Known Determine Metaphysics Being Me

Book:Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh

Source: Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh

“Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.”

Men Law Known Break Imaginary Providence Pretence

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.”

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Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.”

Men Needs Long Today Law Used Order Asks Responsibility Known Claims Independence Bounds Used To Be Individualism Permission Boast Free Man Doubtful

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.”

Persons Law Used Humanity Known Fairs Agree

Author:Margery Wilson