Цитаты из книги автора Oliver Wendell Holmes The Common Law

cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics

intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience