Sunday, May 27, 2018

The Gentleperson's Unofficial Guide to the Laws, Rules, & Dicta of Science


Science and other ‘egghead’ fields are full of laws, by-laws, rules, dictates, dicta, and endless lists of witty observations. Some are quite serious, some, not so much. Some are as ancient as the Greeks are, while others are as new as ‘because I just wrote them a few months ago’ (‘The Three Laws of Humanity’).

There are dozens of such laws, ranging from universally known, to those unknown outside their particular field of practice.  Here is an ‘almost comprehensive list’ of such dictates provided for your elucidation, education, and Enlightenment. 




More rules than you can shake a slide rule at here: