Today I would like to reflect upon law with you. I do not mean those laws which are determined by parliament and applied by the courts, but rather law in the scientific sense of the word-physical, chemical and biological laws, especially laws of the p ure, abstract sciences, as in the various branched of mathematic. Everyone knows that there are such laws. It also should be clear that they are of enormous importance for all human life. For law is that which has been established by science, and from which our technology has been formed.
Law is that which is clea r and certain, the ultimate basis of every rational action.
Were we to have no natural laws, not mathematical laws, then we should be mere barbarians, helpless beings exposed to the sway of natural forces. Now, there are men who are prepared to make us of an instrument without knowing the slightest thing about its construction. I know radio reporters who don't even know whether their microphone is a ribbon for a condenser apparatus, and drivers who only know where the starter is in their cars. In fact, it seems to me that the number of such automatic men who use everything and understand nothing is becoming larger and larger. But even if it were so that most of us have lost all interest in technical equipment, still it can be hoped that this is not the case with the law.