Judges are commonly elderly men, and are more likely to hate at sight any analysis to which they are not accustomed, and which disturbs repose of mind, than to fall in love with novelties.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice
“Law in Science and Science in Law,” Harvard Law Review (1899)

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