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If anything can go wrong, it will

In this page, there are not all Murphy's Laws: to find them, one could do an internet search. Instead, I collected and presented here some of them, with regard to the scientific field and the less known ones. Enjoy!

• Nothing is as easy as it looks.
• Everything takes longer than you think.
• If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
• A man with one watch is certain about time. A man with two watches isn't.
• An expert will always state the obvious.
• The more you want to contact someone over an instant messenger is inversely proportional to the chances that they will be online.
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
• Traffic is inversely proportional to how late you are, or are going to be.
• The probability of being observed is in direct proportion to the stupidity of ones actions
• Any thing that can go wrong, HAS Already Gone Wrong! You just haven't been notified.
• You can do anything except light a paper match on a marshmallow under water
• Those who know the least will always know it the loudest.
• The mud that won't come off on the doormat immediately adheres to the carpet.
• If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
• If Murphy's Law can go wrong it will.
• Cheer up, the worst is yet to come...
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true.
• The probability of rain is inversely proportional to the size of the umbrella you carry around with you all day.
• Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
• Common Sense Is Not So Common
• If the truth is in your favor no one will believe you.
• Laws are like a spider web, in that it snares the poor and weak while the rich and powerful brake them (said by Solon)
• The two most abundant things in all the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
• Every rule has an exception except the Rule of Exceptions.
• The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that Genius has its limits.
• Occult Principle of Murphism
  To know Murphy's Law is to draw its attention.
• Avoidance Law
  If for some reason Murphy's Law fails to operate, it is building up for something big.
• Mr. Murphy warning:
  Don't mess with Mrs. Murphy
• Mrs. Murphy's Law:
  If something goes wrong, it's Mr. Murphy's fault.
• The person ahead of you in the queue, will have the most complex transaction possible.
• Every problem is replaceable with a bigger one.