Scientific laws and theories have different jobs to do.

科学定律和理论有不同的分工。

A scientific law predicts the results of certain initial conditions.

科学定律可以预测在特定初始 情况下可能出现的结果。

Gases, including the air we breathe, follow scientific laws.

气体，包括我们呼吸的空气，都遵循科学规律。

A good scientific law is a finely-tuned machine, accomplishing its task brilliantly but ignorant of why it works as well as it does.

一个好的科学定律像一个好机器，能够出色的完成任务但是我们对于它为何可以这样好的工作 知之甚少。

A scientific law is not a scientific law if it only holds when some supernatural being decides to let things run but not intervene.

如果一个科学定律只是在某些超自然的存在决定让事物运行而不进行干预时才成立 那么它就不是一个科学定律。

As a Christian I see the simple, elegant and beautiful scientific laws as a reflection of the creativity of God, while others might find them at least as pointers to deeper questions about the universe.

作为基督徒，我把自然优雅美丽的科学规律视为上帝创造力的反映。而其他人则认为它们是指向关于宇宙更深刻的问题的线索。

Um, it isn't really a scientific law, not in the sense of predicting gravitation mathematically or something, but it's attempting a pattern in the spacing of the planets, and it was noticed by Bode hundreds of years ago.

嗯，这不是一个真正意义上的科学定律，并不在预测重力数值之类的层面，但它在尝试测量星球之间的距离，于几百年前被波德发现。