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— William James"The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes."
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The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.
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Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
— Robert H. Jackson
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