Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
“The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.”
“In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.”