The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect
mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A
mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
View quotes by Raymond ChandlerLife is an offensive, directed against the repetitious
mechanism of the Universe.
View quotes by Alfred North WhiteheadNatural selection is a
mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
View quotes by Ronald FisherThe more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the
mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
View quotes by David BrowerFor imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic
mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
View quotes by Maxwell MaltzIn crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there: I might possibly answer, that for any thing I know to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch, as well as for the stone? why is it not as admissable in the second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz., that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose . . . This
mechanism being observed . . . the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place of other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
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