The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. Herbert Read
This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics. William John Macquorn Rankine
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. Louis Agassiz
In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret. Rabindranath Tagore
Darwin's ‘survival of the fittest' is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable. The universe is populated by stable things. Richard Dawkins