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Science Quotes - The Quotations Page (773 words) |
 | Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. |
| In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. |
| In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. |
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HOWARD SCHWEBER | The "Science" of Legal Science: The Model of the Natural Sciences in Nineteenth-Century American ... (11240 words) |
| To see how the idea of law as a natural science arose, and to understand the influence that the appropriation of models from the natural sciences continues to exert to this day, it is important to first recognize the parallels in the growth of institutions of American legal and scientific education in the antebellum period. |
| As we have seen, however, the natural sciences from which legal writers drew their inspiration were suffused with the language of biblicism, and even writers who did not acknowledge or understand the debt that their concept of "science" owed to Protestant doctrine clung tenaciously to the methodological tenets of that theology. |
| In legal science the ideal of the grand synthesis meant that analogies could be drawn from one area of law to another—from the duties of bailees to the rules governing liability to invited guests, or from contracts to torts—as well as from other areas of human history to the law generally. |
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