💬 Quotes

"His 'Sea Clock,' known as H-4, was a thing of rare beauty, operating on principles entirely different from pendulum clocks, designed to conquer friction and the expansion of metals under heat."

"For more than forty years, Harrison fought the scientific establishment, proving through perseverance that time was the secret key to mapping the oceans."

"The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from generation to generation."

"My analysis of the judicial process comes then to this, and little more: logic, and history, and custom, and utility, and the accepted standards of right conduct, are the forces which singly or in combination shape the progress of the law."

"The business of the judge is to isolate the retardative forces, whatever they may be, and make sure that they are kept within bounds."

"There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action."

"Stare decisis is at least the everyday rule of our judicial business. We should not lightly upset settled precedents unless there is reason to be certain that the mischiefous consequences of the error outweigh the benefit of certainty."

"Logic and history and custom have their place. We will shape the law to conform to them when we can; but outward and inward forces are constantly at work, and pressure is applied where the law is cramped and narrow."

"The universe endures. The more we study the nature of time, the more we shall comprehend that duration means invention, the creation of forms, the continuous elaboration of the absolutely new."

"Life is a current passing from germ to germ through the medium of a developed organism... It is as if a broad current of life had dashed itself against obstacles, and had been split into a multiplicity of streams."

"Intellect is characterized by a natural inability to comprehend life. Alien to the very movement of life, the intellect plies its trade by means of rigid concepts, treating the living as dead."

"Instinct is sympathy. If this sympathy could expand its object and also reflect upon itself, it would give us the key to the inner operations of life."

"To act, we are forced to perceive a series of events as separate states, discrete moments, and static objects, carving up the continuous flow of reality to suit our practical needs."

"In reality, the past is preserved by itself, automatically. In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant... our past is whole, complete, and absolute, pressing forward against our present."

"Behold, I have come to thee, I have brought to thee righteousness, I have rid myself of sin."

"My heart is mine for eternity. May my heart be with me in the place of hearts."

"I am yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and I have the power to be born a second time."

"Hail to thee, Lord of Truth, who dost know right from wrong, and before whom I now stand pure."

"I fly up as the hawk, I cackle as the goose; I swoop down upon the divine domain like a falcon of the sky."

"O thou who art radiant, I have triumphed over the darkness, and I shine forth as the living sun."