Meaning of physical law | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A scientific generalization based upon empirical observation that is part of physics, standing in contrast to chemical law, biological law, sociological law, etc.
2. A universal statement about the operation of nature, based on empirical observations of physical behavior, tested using the scientific method.

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Examples

“The assumption seems to have been made that because mechanisms (and so also organisms) work in accordance with physical and chemical laws, they are wholly explicable as the resultants of the operation of these laws.”

“No organism can behave in a manner that would break or contradict physical and chemical laws.”

“The unifying features are the saltwater itself and the fact that the variations are controlled by universal chemical, physical and biological laws.”

“the celebrated Northampton Tables agree with Demoivre's hypothesis in their money results, though by no means exhibiting the same physical law of life”

“The question is simply which is the lesser burden, subjection to the human laws of health or subjection to the physical laws of disease.”

““What if we've discovered the underlying physical law of life itself, Jill? […]"”

“He believed that the fundamental physical law of life was motion and that the predominant human impulses were fear and, among those above the poverty level, pride and vanity.”

“Emergence is not connected to the physical laws of molecules, any more than the shape of the chess pieces can explain the rules and the game that is played.”

“This is particularly challenging for network analysis since its origins in the 1930 were permeated by explicit intention of modeling social systems by identifying physical laws of social gravitation.”

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