Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena...

scientific fact or scientific law in that a theory explains "why" or "how": a fact is a simple, basic observation, whereas a law is a statement (often...

list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym. Eponym Fields of science List of eponymous laws (overlaps...

version of Murphy's law are abundant. According to Robert A. J. Matthews in a 1997 article in Scientific American, the name "Murphy's law" originated in 1949...

In science, an inverse-square law is any scientific law stating that the observed "intensity" of a specified physical quantity is inversely proportional...

The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics...

The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century...

The laws of thermodynamics are a set of scientific laws which define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize...

Boyle's law, also referred to as the Boyle–Mariotte law or Mariotte's law (especially in France), is an empirical gas law that describes the relationship...

In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over...

empirical scientific evidence supporting the law of attraction, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience or religion couched in scientific language...

Charles' law (also known as the law of volumes) is an experimental gas law that describes how gases tend to expand when heated. A modern statement of...

degradation Scientific laws named after people Quantification of nucleic acids Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy Transmittance#Beer–Lambert law Bouguer...

of classical mechanics List of eponymous laws List of equations in classical mechanics List of scientific laws named after people List of textbooks on...

named person. Named laws range from significant scientific laws such as Newton's laws of motion, to humorous examples such as Murphy's law. Acton's dictum:...

law of eponymy, states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Examples include Hubble's law, which was derived by Georges...

Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged...

the scientific method: there is an objective reality shared by all rational observers; this objective reality is governed by natural laws; these laws were...

Newton's law of universal gravitation says that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is proportional to the...

Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species can be subdivided into biologically distinct...

hypothesis). Scientific theories are distinguished from hypotheses, which are individual empirically testable conjectures, and from scientific laws, which are...

The Weber–Fechner laws are two related scientific laws in the field of psychophysics, known as Weber's law and Fechner's law. Both relate to human perception...

In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of mass or principle of mass conservation states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter...

of law, such as administrative law, intellectual property law, arms control law, insurance law, environmental law, criminal law, and commercial law, are...

Ravetz's 1971 book Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems also predates Goodhart, though it does not formulate the same law. He discusses how systems...

terminology of "laws". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers in its article on Kepler (p. 620) states that the terminology of scientific laws for these...

Scientific literature encompasses a vast body of academic papers that spans various disciplines within the natural and social sciences. It primarily consists...

Look up law of nature in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Law of nature or laws of nature may refer to: Scientific law, statements based on experimental...

to the number of items—does not allow for the generalization of the scientific law, considering that, in other conditions, the reaction time may not be...

upon clearly defined laws, rules, and principles, as a foundation. And further to show that the fundamental principles of scientific management are applicable...