My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
We want laws to be applied predictably.
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.
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
Law is mind without reason.