Answers Quote by William O. Douglas

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

— Charles Darwin

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

— Charles Macklin

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

— Matt Taibbi

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

— John Quincy Adams

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole…

— Maimonides

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much…

— Robert Breault

The Law is the Law!

— David Pratt

The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

— W. P. Kinsella

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

— Rudolf Rocker

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

— Massad Ayoob