Conform Quote by Immanuel Velikovsky

“a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.”

— Immanuel Velikovsky

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

— George Gaylord Simpson

“The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the study, because…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains…

— Lloyd deMause

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of…

— John Adams

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“There is a great similarity between legal evidence and historical evidence. The only difference lies in the fact that in legal evidence it is…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo