The universe’s laws can be discovered and understood.

Evidence

the universe is governed by a set of rational laws that we can discover and understand. — Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 11

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 11
• XREF: connects to: Expert knowledge reflexively creates the very universe of events it calculates. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 203