The NYT has an article that mentions the "online scientific salon, Edge.org," which is asking, "What's your law?"

• Clifford Pickover: "Every law ever made "has been broken or will crumble after a time."


• Paul Steinhardt: "Good science creates two challenging puzzles for each puzzle it solves."


• The physicist Anton Zeilinger's Fundamental Law: "There is no Fundamental Law."


• David Gelernter's Third Law: "Scientists know all the right answers and none of the right questions."


• Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns: the evolution of technology is exponentially accelerating and will take human evolution along with it.


• John Maddox: "Reviewers who are best placed to understand an author's work are the least likely to draw attention to its achievements, but are prolific sources of minor criticism, especially the identification of typos."


• Ernst Pöppel: "We take life three seconds at a time."


• John D. Barrow's First Law: "Any Universe simple enough to be understood," proposes this mathematical physicist, "is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it."