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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
"The laws of men are not infallible."
"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."
"When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!"
"The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality."
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
"HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers."
Explore more quotes by Arthur Eddington
"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control."
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
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