F. Lee Bailey Quotes
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
Bailey, F. Lee. Quoted in "The Defense Never Rests." Newsweek, 17 Apr. 1967, p. 46.
Alvarez was one of the key physicists who developed the atom bomb and was the scientist selected to accompany the plane bombing Hiroshima. There was considerable friction in the Manhattan Project development of the bomb between the scientists and the military.
This is a modern summary of the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza who developed the modern philosophical foundation of science and scientific thinking. When the authorities are clerics and religious leaders, their authority gets undermined which is why the Jews, Christians, and Muslims all excommunicated Spinoza. For the scientists, they themselves are to be rejected as determiners of knowledge and truth so they tend to do poorly in political disputes because the good scientists would never assert a belief that the politicians should listen to them just because they are great scientists and they “know.” It is the ideologues and junk scientists who are sure of their testimony and can advise with certainty. See linked quote(s).
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. He arrives at the same place as Spinoza did in the 17th century although his reasons are different.
Francis Lee Bailey Jr. is a former American criminal defense attorney best known for representing - and helping to acquit - physician Sam Sheppard and former football player O.J. Simpson, both of whom allegedly murdered their spouses.
