mass-material

Updated: September 10, 2025

Scientific "law" is not imposed from without; it is the law of our being. When you talk of the "law" of gravitation, you do not mean that somebody outside has laid it down that mass shall act in a certain way with regard to other masses; you mean that mass-material being what it is behaves in a certain way. That is to say, a scientific law is the law of being of that which obeys the law.

A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden - Sex and Common-Sense