Full Idea
Strict regularities are rarely if ever discovered in the life sciences.
Gist of Idea
Strict regularities are rarely discovered in life sciences
Source
Bert Leuridan (Can Mechanisms Replace Laws of Nature? [2010], §2)
Book Reference
-: 'Philosophy of Science' [-], p.5
A Reaction
This is elementary once it is pointed out, but too much philosophy have science has aimed at the model provided by the equations of fundamental physics. Science is a broad church, to employ an entertaining metaphor.