The more fundamental the laws, the more phenomena they can deduce and the more complex technologies they can construct.
For example, what was known in Shenzhou as the three great Heavenly Principles of Newtonian Mechanics and Maxwell's Equations. The former was described as "From the pebbles on the ground to the spheres in the sky, all moved respectfully according to its laws," while the latter was even hailed as "the poetry written by the hand of God." All high-tech products on Earth were built on these two cornerstones.