This is kind of hard to explain, so I will start with an example.
Liebig's law of the minimum - Wikipedia (from my recent Dune thread)
Basically, this is a scientific statment which says that “Growth is controlled not by the total of resources available, but by the scarcest resource”
Now, that to me sounds pretty damn Zen. (Apply it to personal growth, and sit back in awe :p)
Does anyone know any other principles or scientific statments that could double as a piece of philosophy or an aphorism?